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Reference:
Jones, Huw M. and Meurig G. M. Jones, A Gazetteer of the Second Anglo-Boer War 1899–1902
(Milton Keynes, The Military Press, 1999).
Kruger, S. J. Paulus (Paul),
1825–1904
Paul Kruger was President of the South African Republic (Transvaal) in the years preceding the war
of 1899–1902. He feared that granting the vote to the uitlanderswould bring about foreign domination
of his country and was convinced that the British were bent on annexation, which was not far from the
truth. He had hopes that a pre-emptive strike would give the Boers victory in 1899, as it had in 1881.
However, he was forced to flee the country in 1900 and went to Europe to seek support, where he
found only empty words and no promise of action.
As a boy Kruger took part in the Great Trek and was present at the Battle of Vechtkop when,
under Henrdik Potgieter on 16 October 1836, the Boers fought the Ndebele. He attended the Sand
River Convention in 1852. In 1862 he helped quell an uprising of his fellow Boers in the Transvaal,
became involved in politics once more after the annexation of the Transvaal in 1877 and was one of
the governing Triumvirate during the First Boer War. In 1883 he was elected President of the South
African Republic (ZAR), a post to which he was reelected on a further three occasions.
When the pressure of the incomers flocking to the gold mines led to an attempted coup, which the
Jameson Raid was intended to spark, Kruger made good use of the political advantage offered to him
and while the tax
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