Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - An ba Thesiger mukamin babban janar a watan Maris na 1877, an nada shi ya zama kwamandan sojojin Burtaniya a Cape Colony tare da mukamin na karamin kwamandan a watan Fabrairun 1878, kuma a watan Oktoba ya gaji mahaifinsa a matsayin 2nd Baron Chelmsford. Ya kawo Yakin Cape Frontier na Tara
zuwa kammalawa a watan Yulin 1878, kuma an sanya shi Knight Commander na Order of Bath a watan Nuwamba 1878. Kwarewar da ya yi na yaƙi da Xhosa ya haifar da ƙarancin ra'ayi game da damar yaƙin sojojin Afirka, wanda daga baya ya haifar da mummunan sakamako a lokacin Yaƙin Anglo-Zulu.