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1802
 
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The Treaty of Amiens restores the Cape of Good Hope to the Netherlands       
1806
 
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The British recapture the Cape of Good Hope from the Dutch       
1808
 
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The British government uses Freetown, in Sierra Leone, as a base in the fight against the slave trade       
1809
 
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The British impose the so-called Hottentot Code, protecting Africans at the Cape but also tying them to employers' farms      
1815
 
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The congress of Vienna leaves the Cape of Good Hope in British hands       
1816
 
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The British establish Bathurst (now Banjul) at the mouth of the Gambia as a base against the slave trade       
1820
 
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The first big influx of British settlers, numbering some 5000, arrives at Cape Town in South Africa      
1821
 
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The American Colonization Society buys the area later known as Liberia to settle freed slaves      
1822
 
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The first shipload of freed slaves reaches Cape Mesurado (in the region soon called Liberia) from the USA     
1827
 
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The Turkish governor of Algiers, flicking at the French consul with his fly whisk, finds that he has provoked a French blockade and eventually invasion