Xhosa Wars/fifth War 1818%e2%80%931819

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    “The soger frae the wars returns,
    The sailor frae the main,
    But I hae parted frae my Love,
    Never to meet again, my dear,
    Never to meet again.”
    —Robert Burns (1759–1796)

    “What would you do in my position? Would you drop the war where it is? Or, would you prosecute it in future, with elderstalk squirts, charged with rose water?”
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