At this period the Chief T’Slambie occupied the Zuurberg with about four thousand Kafirs.
In May the head-quarters were established at Graham’s Town, and, in consequence of the hostile attitude of the Kafirs, the regiment was distributed in small parties along the frontier, in two lines of posts; the advanced line in detachments from Osterhuisen’s Post, to Old Kafir Drift; the second, from Bruintjie’s Hoogte, to what is now called Groen Fontein; in all, about twenty-two posts, the head-quarters remaining at Graham’s Town.
Several posts in the rear line were subsequently abandoned, and some of the posts in the front line were occupied by British regiments, the Cape Regiment being found more efficient in patrolling, scouring the bush, and dislodging parties of Kafirs assembled within the colony.
1813
1814
1815
These arduous duties were performed by the regiment in 1813, 1814, and 1815; in the last-mentioned year Major Lyster left the frontier, and the command of the regiment devolved on Major Fraser.
In the year 1815 an extensive revolt took place among the colonists on the frontier, and the Cape Regiment was conspicuously useful on this occasion; its firm and soldierlike bearing checked the revolt; it assisted in the capture of the insurgents; and a hundred men under Major Fraser attended the execution of several convicted delinquents.
After the suppression of this revolt, a detachment of the regiment was selected to be attached to the Royal Artillery as drivers; and in October, two hundred men marched into Kafirland, under Captain Bogle, to recover property which had been stolen by the natives.
In the mean time the war had terminated in Europe, and the sovereignty of the Cape of Good Hope was permanently confirmed to Great Britain by the Congress at Vienna.
1816
1817