Cory Library and Historical Archives

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  Fort Hare

  Showing the magazine and the remaining wall of the fort.
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  Fort Hare bastion
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  Fort Thomson (near Alice) 1835 near junction of Gaga & Tyumie Rivers

  Named after Lt.-Col. RT Thomson of the Royal Engineers.
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  Fort White with Intaba-ka-Indoda
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  Free Church mission and Fort Hare : plan of the location and buildings
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  G.E Cory standing inside ruins of Fort Wiltshire (sic)

  Fort Willshire was built by the Royal Engineers under Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Willshire of the 38th Regiment, on the orders of Lord Charles Somerset, in 1819.
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  Grave of Hottentot victim of the Axe War, 1846

  The gravestone is engraved: “Hottentot Victim of the [picture of an axe] war 1846”. On the back of the image is a note reading: “T Mackenzie Kingston House SMT”.
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  Imbali

  AmaJobe sisizwe kwizizwe zamaXhosa esinomlando waso osafumaneka ngokucacileyo kwisizukulwane seshumi elinesine. UNkosi Sinuka, isizukulwane sesibhozo ukusuka kwinkosi uZanemali ophetheyo, yabanguye owagqwesayo, ekhona kumlo ophakathi koCirha noTshawe ngaseMzimvubu River phambi ko 1600. Ngeloxesha esisizwe samaJobe sasele sikho kade kweli lamaXhosa njengesizwe samaJobe. Kwakukho izizwe zamaRhudulu , amaGqubusha, amaJobe asondele kakhulu kwisiduko samaNgwevu, in fact uSinuka ngumkhuluwa kaTshangisa and uncle to Rhudulu.,Historic record of AmaJobe community drafted by Chief Zanemali Bani.
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  Imbali (unedited version)

  AmaJobe sisizwe kwizizwe zamaXhosa esinomlando waso osafumaneka ngokucacileyo kwisizukulwane seshumi elinesine. UNkosi Sinuka, isizukulwane sesibhozo ukusuka kwinkosi uZanemali ophetheyo, yabanguye owagqwesayo, ekhona kumlo ophakathi koCirha noTshawe ngaseMzimvubu River phambi ko 1600. Ngeloxesha esisizwe samaJobe sasele sikho kade kweli lamaXhosa njengesizwe samaJobe. Kwakukho izizwe zamaRhudulu , amaGqubusha, amaJobe asondele kakhulu kwisiduko samaNgwevu, in fact uSinuka ngumkhuluwa kaTshangisa and uncle to Rhudulu.,Historic record of AmaJobe community drafted by Chief Zanemali Bani.
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  Kaffir fare at Fort Wiltshire (sic)

  Fort Willshire was built by the Royal Engineers under Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Willshire of the 38th Regiment, on the orders of Lord Charles Somerset, in 1819.,From 1824 – 1830 weekly trade fairs were held at the Fort, where licensed British Settlers could trade in ivory, hides etc with Xhosa. At first cattle could not be traded, and trade in fire-arms and liquor was forbidden.
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  Map of the country from Algoa Bay to the Great Kei River, Cape of Good Hope : being the eastern frontier and the country of the adjacent kaffirs compiled under the direction of Lieut. Colonel Piper, comg. Royal Engr., from the original surveys in the Royal Engineer Office, Cape Town, and other documents furnished by the Surveyor General's Department.

  Lithographed by James Wyld, geographer to the Queen 457 Strand, 11 & 12 Charing Cross S.W. and 2 Royal Exchange E.C.,1849. Note: the position of the military posts are marked by a red circle, and the present colonial boundary is marked with a red tint. Copy of the original.
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  Map of the Great Fish River Irrigation Board (as per government proclamation no. 63 of 1920 : showing the areas under minor boards and private schemes)

  Map of the Great Fish River Irrigation Board. C.H. Hughes, circle engineer; A.D. Lewis, Director of Irrigation.
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  Mildenhall 's farm near Fort Beaufort
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  Plan of barracks at Fort Wiltshire (sic)

  Fort Willshire was built by the Royal Engineers under Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Willshire of the 38th Regiment, on the orders of Lord Charles Somerset, in 1819.
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  Plan of Keiskama river and Fort Wiltshire (sic)

  Fort Willshire was built by the Royal Engineers under Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Willshire of the 38th Regiment, on the orders of Lord Charles Somerset, in 1819.
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  Plan of proposed buildings for the Inter State Native College (later Fort Hare University)
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  Plan of section of Fort Wiltshire (sic) as intended to have been completed

  Fort Willshire was built by the Royal Engineers under Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Willshire of the 38th Regiment, on the orders of Lord Charles Somerset, in 1819.
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  Plan of the ground in the neighbourhood of Block Drift near the Chumie River in Kaffirland : shewing the position whereon the commander in chief has directed a temporary post to be erected.
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  Plan shewing military defences of King Williams Town

  Plan shewing military defences of King Williams Town; [by] Geo. Newey.
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  Programme of the centenary celebrations in commemoration of the arrival of the 1820 British settlers of Albany, to be held at Port Elizabeth on April 9th and at Grahamstown on April 11th 1921

  Programme of the centenary celebrations in commemoration of the arrival of the 1820 British settlers of Albany, to be held at Port Elizabeth on April 9th and at Grahamstown on April 11th 1921 : containing a descriptive guide to the motor route through the Eastern Province to be travelled by Major-General H R H Price Arthur of Connaught ..., Governor-General of the Union of South Africa, accompanied by H R H Princess Arthur of Connaught, at the close of the celebrations.
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  Ruins of Fort Murray

  As a result of the annexation of the Province of Queen Adelaide in 1835, Governor D’Urban ordered the building of a series of new forts between the Keiskamma and Kei Rivers, Fort Murray being among them.
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  Ruins of Fort Murray showing carefully cut stone

  As a result of the annexation of the Province of Queen Adelaide in 1835, Governor D’Urban ordered the building of a series of new forts between the Keiskamma and Kei Rivers, Fort Murray being among them.
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  Ruins of Fort Wiltshire (sic)

  Fort Willshire was built by the Royal Engineers under Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Willshire of the 38th Regiment, on the orders of Lord Charles Somerset, in 1819.
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  Ruins of Fort Wiltshire (sic) (Lord C. Somerset's Fort)

  Fort Willshire was built by the Royal Engineers under Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Willshire of the 38th Regiment, on the orders of Lord Charles Somerset, in 1819.
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  Ruins of unidentified fort or fortified farm house, Eastern Cape