Inventory of the Rosemary Smith Collection held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. The documents (mostly consisting of letters, articles and notes) were collected by Rosemary Smith, and relates to the work of the Black Sash during the Apartheid era in Grahamstown. Includes material relating to elections, detentions, marches and protests etc.
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.
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.
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.
