Complex sentence: The peace was short-lived, and early in the Napoleonic Wars a second British expeditionary force was prepared, launched in 1806 and the Cape Colony seized a second time following the Battle of Blaauwberg.
Split into simpler sentences: The peace was short-lived, and early in the Napoleonic Wars a second British expeditionary force was prepared. In 1806 the British seized the Cape Colony a second time following the Battle of Blaauwberg.