• Willem Helot (27 October 1675 – 7 November 1749), was secunde and Acting Governor of the Cape Colony. Helot arrived at the Cape as a soldier in 1694 and...
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  • events that happened during the 1710s in South Africa. 28 December - Willem Helot is appointed acting Governor of the Cape Colony 16 March - A smallpox...
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    Governor Louis van Assenburgh 1 February 1708 – 27 December 1711 Governor Willem Helot (acting) 27 December 1711 – 28 March 1714 Acting Governor Maurits Pasques...
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    Dutch Cape Colony In office 28 March 1714 – 8 September 1724 Preceded by Willem Helot (acting) Succeeded by Jan de la Fontaine (acting) Personal details Born...
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  • December 1711 Preceded by Johan Cornelis d'Ableing (acting) Succeeded by Willem Helot (acting) Personal details Born c. 1657 Amsterdam, Dutch Republic Died...
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    Thespians. It has been reported that others also remained, including up to 900 helots and 400 Thebans. With the exception of the Thebans, most of whom reportedly...
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    of thousands of British subjects in the Transvaal in the condition of "helots", as he expressed it, was undermining the prestige of Britain throughout...
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    helotry. According to Herodotus (IX, 28–29), helots were seven times as numerous as Spartans. Following several helot revolts around the year 600 BC, the Spartans...
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    seizes desirable land, reduces the hapless Natives to the condition of helots and establishes "civilisation". The territory is "protected", occupied,...
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