<P> The British expedition was led by Vice-Admiral Sir George Keith Elphinstone and sailed in April 1795 , arriving off Simon 's Town at the cape in June . Attempts were made to negotiate a settlement with the colony , but talks achieved nothing and an amphibious landing was made on 7 August . A short battle was fought at Muizenberg , and skirmishing between British and Dutch forces continued until September when a larger military force landed . With Cape Town under threat , Dutch governor , Abraham Josias Sluysken , surrendered the colony . Elphinstone subsequently strengthened the garrison against counterattack and stationed a Royal Navy squadron off the port . Almost a year later a Dutch reinforcement convoy reached the colony only to find that it was badly outnumbered , and surrendered without a fight . The British occupation continued until the Peace of Amiens in 1802 when it was returned to the Dutch . In 1806 , during the Napoleonic Wars , a second British invasion reoccupied the colony after the Battle of Blaauwberg and it remained a British colony until the establishment of the Union of South Africa in 1910 . </P>
<P> The British expedition was led by Vice-Admiral Sir George Keith Elphinstone and sailed in April 1795 , arriving off Simon 's Town at the cape in June . Attempts were made to negotiate a settlement with the colony , but talks achieved nothing and an amphibious landing was made on 7 August . A short battle was fought at Muizenberg , and skirmishing between British and Dutch forces continued until September when a larger military force landed . With Cape Town under threat , Dutch governor , Abraham Josias Sluysken , surrendered the colony . Elphinstone subsequently strengthened the garrison against counterattack and stationed a Royal Navy squadron off the port . Almost a year later a Dutch reinforcement convoy reached the colony only to find that it was badly outnumbered , and surrendered without a fight . The British occupation continued until the Peace of Amiens in 1802 when it was returned to the Dutch . In 1806 , during the Napoleonic Wars , a second British invasion reoccupied the colony after the Battle of Blaauwberg and it remained a British colony until the establishment of the Union of South Africa in 1910 . </P>
who was the british commander whose troops landed in simonstown on 7 august 1795
who was the british commander whose troops landed in simonstown on 7 august 1795
Sir George Keith Elphinstone
Sir George Keith Elphinstone