Facts in brief:
Founded by navigator Jan van Riebeeck for the Dutch East India Company; controlled by the Dutch until it fell to Great Britain in 1795; Treaty of Amiens in 1803 returned it to the Dutch; retaken by British in 1806; national legislative capital.
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