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Letter from Lt Henry Clifford of the Rifle Brigade to his father, Lord Clifford, in Rome, dated ‘The Greenlan’ off Madeira, 12 March 1848: weather fearful and obliged to anchor; ‘The vessel in which I took my passage has taken a large cargo of Government powder for the Kaffir War’. Associated with 7th Cape Frontier War (1846-1847). From a collection of letters to England from Captain Henry Clifford of the Rifle Brigade while serving in Cape Colony, 1848-1853.

7th Cape Frontier War (1846-1847)