The British win the Battle of Muizenberg on September 15, 1795 and capture the Cape Town Colony, ending the Dutch East India Company’s role in the region.
In 1802, they relinquished the colony back to the Dutch with the signing of the Treaty of Amiens but the British reannexed it in 1806 during the Napoleonic Wars with the Cape becoming a very important base prior to the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869. More
