Complex sentence: Another war with the Xhosa, known as the War of the Axe, broke out in 1846, when a Khoikhoi escort that had been manacled to a Xhosa thief was murdered while transporting the man to Graham's Town to be tried for stealing an axe.
Split into simpler sentences: Another war with the Xhosa, known as the War of the Axe, broke out in 1846. The war started when a Khoikhoi escort that had been manacled to a Xhosa thief was murdered while transporting the man to Graham's Town to be tried for stealing an axe.