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Benjamin D'Urban
Sir Benjamin D'Urban was a British army officer and governor of the Cape Colony from 1834 to 1838. After the Sixth Xhosa War he annexed the land between the Keiskamma and Kei rivers in 1835 as the Province of Queen Adelaide, but the British government reversed the annexation in 1836. The city of Durban is named after him.
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