The Battle of Pointis Ida

The british and portuguese had always been able to do a pretty thriving trade in contraband. This picked up mightily during that black out period between 17 95 and 18 o two, when spain was cut off from her colonies. Now by the late 17 hundreds, this once great mine was pretty well exhausted. So an officer named home riggs popham got it into his head that the rio de la planta was ripe for the plucking. Without any explicit orders, he got the general occupying cape town to lend him 15 hundred men to make a run at invading and occupying pointis idas. Two days later, the british marched into the city practically