[1695]
‘Nine Years' War’ continues.
Background - from official documents in the archives
5/5 ... letter received ... dated at 's Gravenhage January 21 and 25 ... warning that the enemy was on the way, or would soon leave for the Indies, probably Malacca, with 6 ships, heavily manned and gunned ... authorising His Honour, if he had need of men to strengthen his garrison, to take them from the outward-bound ships [32 taken permanently, 100 provisionally]
7/5 ... letter to Stellenbosch ... send 100 men under good officers here ... to be relieved every 14 days ...
10/5 ... arrived, including 20 dragoons ... and since the number of freemen at Drakenstein is so increased, a new company of foot-soldiers to be formed there ...
22/5 [first sermon preached from the ‘New Kat*’]
1/7 [garrison* 644, yacht Swarte Leeuw 71]
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