A British expeditionary force defeats the Dutch forces at the Battle of Blaauwberg on January 8, 1806 and captures the Cape of Good Hope during the Napoleonic Wars. It went on to get a full capitulation on January 18, 1806. The territory was formally ceded to Britain by the Netherlands in the 1814 Convention of London following the end of the Napoleonic Wars.
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