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The Mfengu (contemporaneously referred to as 'Fingoes') were an agglomeration of Northern Nguni refugees who eventually found their way to Cape Colony (in 1835), following a discontented period of residency in Gcalekaland. Allied with the British against the Xhosa during the 7th and 8th CFWs, they found several dependable infantry units, such as the 'Fort Beaufort Fingo Levy', which played a notable part in the several Waterkloof campaigns. There were also large communities of Fingoes resident at Fort Peddie and Alice (Fort Hare), where the men of fighting age mustered under arms and played a vital role in defending those towns against the major Xhosa attacks of 1846 and 1851 respectively. The Fingoes had their own chiefs and captains (recognized military leaders), but were usually taken into the field by European volunteer officers, (who in their real lives were not uncommonly government employed 'superintendents' of the several Fingo communities).