Page: 1 EAST LONDON ...developed around the port established in 1847 as a landing place for British troops and supplies destined for the eastern Cape frontier. Situated at the mouth of the Buffalo River, the settlement was first named Port Rex but was renamed East London in ...
Page: 2 The British government, however, refused to ratify the annexation, and barely seven months later the province was abolished. At the outbreak of the Seventh Frontier War (1846–47) the frontier territory was reoccupied by British forces, and on 23 December ...
