The Battle of the Swanga, Cape of Good Hope, in which the Royal Artillery, The 7th Dragoon Guards and The Cape Mounted Rifles under Henry Somerset CB defeated a large body of Kaffirs leaving between 5 and 600 dead on the field. The number of Kaffirs on the field was estimated at 9000.
aquatint, coloured, print
Accession Number
NAM.1962-06-32-2
Description
The Battle of the Swanga, Cape of Good Hope, in which the Royal Artillery, The 7th Dragoon Guards and The Cape Mounted Rifles under Henry Somerset CB defeated a large body of Kaffirs leaving between 5 and 600 dead on the field. The number of Kaffirs on the field was estimated at 9000. Coloured aquatint of a battle on 8 Jun 1846, by J Harris coloured by H Martens after a sketch on the spot by Capt Carey, No 2 in the series ‘Kaffir Wars’, published by Rudolph Ackermann, 1 Sep 1852.
Campaigns
7th Cape Frontier War (1846-1847)