 The Europeans invaded using force when land, they had originally seized, restricted them from expanding their stock farming activities.The Dutch East India Company, which was responsible for what is referred to as "founding" several urban areas, like towns and cities in already populated areas of the west of South Africa, continually changed the boundaries in the Cape Colony, establishing the Great Fish River as the eastern frontier in 1778.The First Xhosa War broke out in 1779 between Boer frontiersmen and the Xhosa.