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This covers most of the colonial wars with the French and Dutch during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.  

You get a cumulative effect of seemingly slow British progress, that in the end removes all French influence overseas by 1811.  Then, problems with the Americans predominate.

There is a good deal of discussion about Elphinstone's campaign to take Capetown and the Battle at Saldana Bay.