Basuto-Boer War 1858

With the restoration of peace on the Highveld in the 1840s, many Africans attempted to return to their lands, only to find them occupied by voortrekkers. The existence of the Basuto (Lesotho) kingdom, ruled by Mshweshwe (also spelled Moshoeshoe and Mosheshu), on the eastern flank of the voortrekker's Orange Free State meant constant friction. Despite Mshweshwe's attempts to keep the peace, cattle raiding by his dispossessed subjects, together with increasing demands for land and labor from settler sheep-farmers and Boer encroachments on Basutoland, led to war in 1858. The Orange Free State was forced to sue for peace. On June 18, 1858, Paul Kruger went to the Basuto chief and concluded a peace treaty.

References

Military History, 930; History of Southern Africa; Chronology - Stephanus Johannes Paulos Kruger; South Africa - A Country Study.

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