Cape Cross (13 March 1994 – 21 April 2017) was an Irish-bred Thoroughbred racehorse. He is a son of the July Cup winner Green Desert and Cheveley Park...
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Boerperd (redirect from Cape Horse)
origins of the Cape Horse go back to horses imported to southern Africa from Java in 1653. Between 1770 and 1790 there was some cross-breeding with Thoroughbreds...
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Charles Mullins (VC) (category Imperial Light Horse officers)
Commonwealth forces. Mullins was 30 years old, and a captain in the Imperial Light Horse (Natal) during the Second Boer War when the following deed took place at...
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Gelderland horse Giara Horse Gidran Groningen Horse Hackney horse Haflinger Hanoverian horse Heck horse Heihe horse Henson horse Hequ horse Hirzai Hispano-Bretón...
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Wolraad Woltemade (c.1708 – 1 June 1773) was a Cape Dutch dairy farmer, who died while rescuing sailors from the wreck of the ship De Jonge Thomas in Table...
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Edmund O'Toole (category Irish recipients of the Victoria Cross)
Edmond Joseph O'Toole VC was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that...
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Cecil D'Arcy (category Cape Colony army officers)
Garnet Wolseley in Pretoria. After the Frontier Light Horse was disbanded, D'Arcy joined the Cape Mounted Riflemen as a captain. He served in the 1880...
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Horace Henry Glasock (category Royal Horse Artillery soldiers)
Maxwell also earned the Victoria Cross in this action. Following his service in the Boer War, he remained in the Royal Horse Artillery until 1911, when he...
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Robert George Scott (category British recipients of the Victoria Cross)
Cape Mountain Riflemen in 1876. He served in the Frontier Wars of 1877 and the Zulu War of 1878–9. Scott was 21 years old, and a sergeant in the Cape...
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Quagga (redirect from Cape Quagga)
Burchell's zebra. They were once found in great numbers in the Karoo of Cape Province and the southern part of the Orange Free State in South Africa....
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