the Napoleonic Wars started on 18 May 1803. When Napoleon achieved significant successes in the war, in 1806, the British again became concerned that the French might occupy the Cape and use it as a base to attack British shipping in the Indian Ocean and again occupied the Cape. The Treaty of Paris was a peace treaty signed in 1814 between France and Britain.[185] The treaty ended the Napoleonic Wars and permanently ceded the Cape of Good Hope to the British.
