Xhosa Wars
（重定向自Cape Frontier Wars）
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![Map of the Cape Colony in 1809, showing its eastward expansion](/Images/godic/202501/03/Cape_Colony000927.jpg")
![The Eastern Frontier, ca 1835](/Images/godic/202501/03/Eastern_Frontier,_Cape_of_Good_Hope,_ca_18350927.png")
![The murder of Chief Hintsa is an enduring atrocity in the memory of the Xhosa nation.](/Images/godic/202501/03/Chief_Hintsa_of_the_Gcaleka_Xhosa0927.jpg")
The Xhosa Wars (also known as the Cape Frontier Wars or "Africa's 100 Years War"), were a series of nine wars or flare-ups (from 1779 to 1879) between the Xhosa tribes and European settlers in what is now the Eastern Cape in South Africa. These events were the longest-running military action in the history of African colonialism.