Excerpt from Francois Coillard Transvaal authorities and the leaders of the Zulus; and in 1851, Sir Harry Smith, Governor of Capetown, dispatched a small force against Moshesh and his warriors. The Brit ish were badly defeated, and another expedition in the fol lowing year suffered a like reverse. Yet Moshesh wisely sued for peace and Basutoland retained its freedom. The political outcome of these years of discord was the with drawal of British sovereignty over the Orange Free State, which joined the Transvaal as an independent Boer re public. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.