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Born September 17, 1819 • near Graaff-Reinet • South Africa
Died May 19, 1901 (aged 81) • Potchefstroom • South Africa
Title / Office president (1859-1871), Orange Free State • president (1857-1871), South African Republic

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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
Andries Pretorius, portrait (artist unknown).
Andries Pretorius
Boer South African leader
Joubert, Petrus Jacobus
Petrus Jacobus Joubert
South African politician
Christiaan Rudolf de Wet
Boer statesman
de la Rey, Jacobus Hercules
Jacobus Hercules de la Rey
Boer leader
Boer Gen. Pieter Arnoldus Cronjé (left) surrendering to British Field Marshal Lord Roberts, 1900, during the South African War (1899–1902).
Pieter Arnoldus Cronjé
Boer general
Jan Smuts.
Jan Smuts
South African statesman
Paul Kruger
Paul Kruger
South African statesman
Louis Botha
Louis Botha
prime minister of Union of South Africa
J.B.M. Hertzog
prime minister of South Africa
Sir Johannes Brand, lithograph by W.H. Schroder
Sir Johannes Henricus Brand
president of Orange Free State
Burgers, Thomas François
Thomas François Burgers
president of Transvaal
Marthinus Theunis Steyn
president of Orange Free State
Beyers
C.F. Beyers
South African politician
Piet Retief
Piet Retief
Boer leader
Isaac Schapera
South African anthropologist
Salomon Gerhardus Maritz
South African general
Milner, detail of an oil painting by Hugh de Twenebrokes Glazebrook, 1901; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Alfred Milner, Viscount Milner
British diplomat
Barney Barnato
British financier
Sir Donald Currie
British shipowner and politician