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Jan van Riebeeck reached Table Bay on 6 April 1652.The Dutch East India Company. The Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, or VOC,decided to establish a permanent settlement.in SOUTH AFRICA. Shortly thereafter, the in the Dutch of the day ,The VOC, one of the major European trading houses sailing the spice route to the East, had no intention of colonising the area, instead wanting only to establish a secure base camp where passing ships could shelter, and where hungry sailors could stock up on fresh supplies of meat, fruit, and vegetables.  |
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The Voortrekker Monument is located just south of Pretoria in South Africa. This massive granite structure is prominently located on a hilltop, and was raised to commemorate the Voortrekkers who left the Cape Colony between 1835 and 1854. The idea to build a monument in honour of the Voortrekkers was first discussed on 16 December 1888, when President Paul Kruger of the South African Republic attended the Day of the Covenant celebrations at Blood River in Natal. |
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The Battle of Blood River Afrikaans: Slag van Bloedrivier; is the name given for the battle fought between 470 Voortrekkers led by Andries Pretorius, and an estimated 10,000–15,000 Zulu attackers on the bank of the Ncome River on 16 December 1838, in what is today KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Casualties amounted to three thousand of king Dingane's soldiers dead, including two Zulu princes competing with prince Mpande for the Zulu throne. Three Trekker commando members were lightly wounded, including Pretorius himself. |
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The Flag of Transvaal was the flag of the former Transvaal province of South Africa. It was previously the flag of the historic Transvaal Republic, officially called the Zuid Afrikaanse Republiek or in English translation, the South African Republic, from 1857 to 1874, 1875-1877, and 1881-1902. It was also used by the Boer rebels during the Maritz Rebellion as the flag of their insurgent South African Republic from 1914 to 1915. The flag features three horizontal stripes of red, white, and blue ,recalling the Dutch national flag, with a vertical green stripe at the hoist, and is known as the Vierkleur ,lit. four colours. The former national flag of South Africa from 1928—1994, had, as part of a feature contained within its central white bar, a horizontal flag of the Transvaal Republic.
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The First Boer War Dutch: Eerste Boerenoorlog,literally First Farmer's War Afrikaans: Eerste Vryheidsoorlog, literally First Freedom War, also known as the First Anglo-Boer War or the Transvaal War, was fought from 16 December 1880 until 23 March 1881. The Second Boer War ,Dutch: Tweede Boerenoorlog, Afrikaans: Tweede Vryheidsoorlog or Tweede Boereoorlog, was fought from 11 October 1899 until 31 May 1902 between the British Empire and the Afrikaans-speaking Dutch settlers of two independent Boer republics, the South African Republic ,Transvaal Republic and the Orange Free State. |
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The Great Trek Afrikaans: Die Groot Trek, was an eastward and north-eastward migration away from British control in the Cape Colony during the 1830s and 1840s by Boers ,Dutch/Afrikaans for "farmers". The migrants were descended from settlers from western mainland Europe, most notably from the Netherlands, northwest Germany and French Huguenots. The Great Trek itself led to the founding of numerous Boer republics, the Natalia Republic, the Orange Free State Republic and the Transvaal being the most notable. |
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The Voortrekkers Afrikaans and Dutch for pioneers, literally "those who pull ahead", "fore-trekkers", were emigrants during the 1830s and 1840s who left the Cape Colony ,British at the time, but founded by the Dutch, moving into the interior of what is now South Africa. The Great Trek consisted of a number of mass movements under a number of different leaders including Louis Tregardt, Hendrik Potgieter, Sarel Cilliers, Pieter Uys, Gerrit Maritz, Piet Retief and Andries Pretorius. |
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Boer is the Dutch and Afrikaans word for farmer, which came to denote the descendants of the Dutch-speaking settlers of the eastern Cape frontier in Southern Africa during the 18th century, as well as those who left the Cape Colony during the 19th century to settle in the Orange Free State, Transvaal ,which are together known as the Boer Republics, and to a lesser extent Natal. Their primary motivations for leaving the Cape were to escape British rule and extract themselves from the constant border wars between the British imperial government and the native tribes on the eastern frontier.The Trekboers, as they were originally known, were mainly of Dutch origin and included Calvinists, such as Flemish and Frisian Calvinists, as well as French Huguenot and German and British protestants who first arrived in the Cape of Good Hope during the period of its administration (1652 – 1795) by the Dutch East India Company. |
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