The B-series features engine bores machined directly into the block (rather than the wet liners used on earlier Cummins engines). It was also set apart by the use of a shallow one-piece head, requiring closer tolerances than in other Cummins products.
The fifth frontier war, also known as the War of Nxele, initially developed from a 1817 judgment by the Cape Colony government about stolen cattle and their restitution by the Xhosa.n the Xhosa side, the Ngqika (known to the Europeans as the Gaika) were the chief tribe engaged in the war, assisted by portions of the Ndlambe, and the Thembu. The Xhosa forces were over ten times greater in number, and had by this time replaced their traditional weapons with modern firearms.
frontier c.1400, from O.Fr. fronter, from front brow (see front). Originally the front line of an army, sense of borderland is first attested 1413. In reference to N.Amer., from 1676; later with a specific sense:What is the frontier? ... In the census reports it is treated as the margin of that settlement which has a density of two or more to the square mile. [F.J. Turner, The Frontier in American History]Frontiersman is from 1782.