The Cape of Good Hope, also known as the Cape Colony, was a British colony originally established in 1795 in present-day South Africa and Namibia, named after the Cape of Good Hope. The British colony was preceded by an earlier Dutch colony of the same name, the Kaap de Goede Hoop, established in 1652 by the Dutch East India Company. The Dutch lost the colony … Continue reading Cape Of Good Hope #62 (1900)