The Morning Chronicle
London, Tuesday November 24, 1795

The Battle of Muizenberg in 1795 was a British invasion that resulted in the first British occupation of the Cape Colony, ending Dutch East India Company rule. British warships bombarded the Dutch fort at Muizenberg on August 7, 1795, and British troops advanced, pushing the Dutch forces back until they surrendered the colony on September 16, 1795.

The Morning Chronicle was a newspaper founded in 1769 in London. It was notable for having been the first steady employer of essayist William Hazlitt as a political reporter and the first steady employer of Charles Dickens as a journalist. It was the first newspaper to employ a salaried woman journalist, Eliza Lynn Linton;[4] for

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