Cape Colony is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Chowan County, North Carolina, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census. The community is in southern Chowan County, on the northeast bank of the tidal Chowan River.

The Cape Colony (Dutch: Kaapkolonie) was the name of a colony based around the Cape of Good Hope, in southern Africa.It was first established in 1652 by Jan van Riebeeck as a governorate of the Dutch East India Company.It was captured by the British in 1795 and returned to the Dutch in 1802. In 1806 it was again captured by the British.

The Cape Colony was the first European colony in South Africa, which was initially controlled by the Dutch but subsequently invaded and taken over by the British. After war broke out again, a British force was sent once more to the Cape.After a battle in January 1806 on the shores of Table Bay, the Dutch garrison of Cape Castle surrendered to the British under Sir David Baird, …

The Cape Colony (Dutch: Kaapkolonie), also known as the Cape of Good Hope, was a British colony in present-day South Africa named after the Cape of Good Hope.The British colony was preceded by an earlier corporate colony that became a original Dutch colony of the same name, which was established in 1652 by the Dutch East India Company (VOC).The Cape was under …

The Cape Colony in the eighteen eighties. University of the Witwatersrand, African Studies Institute, 1983. Robert Ross, David Anderson: Status and Respectability in the Cape Colony, 1750–1870. A Tragedy of Manners. Cambridge University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-521-62122-4.

The flag of Cape Colony was the official flag of the Cape Colony from 1876 to 1910. It formed part of a system of colonial flags that was used throughout the British Empire. History. In a series of decisions made in 1864, 1865, and 1869, the UK's government decided that every colony should have a distinctive badge, to be displayed on flags at ...