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Andries Pretorius: Quick Facts

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Facts

Also Known As Andries Wilhelmus Jacobus Pretorius
Born November 27, 1798 • near Graaff-Reinet • South Africa
Died July 23, 1853 (aged 54) • Transvaal • South Africa
Role In Battle of Blood River • Great Trek

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Andries Pretorius, portrait (artist unknown).
Monuments to Andries Pretorius (right) and his son Marthinus serve as a tribute to their place in the history of South Africa.
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Andries Hendrik Potgieter
Boer leader
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Boer leader
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Petrus Jacobus Joubert
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Boer Gen. Pieter Arnoldus Cronjé (left) surrendering to British Field Marshal Lord Roberts, 1900, during the South African War (1899–1902).
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Salomon Gerhardus Maritz
South African general
Jan Smuts.
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South African statesman
Paul Kruger
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South African statesman
Louis Botha
Louis Botha
prime minister of Union of South Africa
Theophilus Shepstone.
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British South African statesman
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Boer statesman
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Thomas François Burgers
president of Transvaal
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Isaac Schapera
South African anthropologist
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South African politician
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Dingane
Zulu king of Natal
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Barney Barnato
British financier
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Sir Donald Currie
British shipowner and politician
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Robert Broom
South African paleontologist
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president of South Africa