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Also Known As Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger
Born October 10, 1825 • South Africa
Died July 14, 1904 (aged 78) • Switzerland
Title / Office president (1883-1900), South African Republic
Role In Kruger telegram • South African War

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Petrus Jacobus Joubert
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Jan Smuts.
Jan Smuts
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Louis Botha
Louis Botha
prime minister of Union of South Africa
de la Rey, Jacobus Hercules
Jacobus Hercules de la Rey
Boer leader
Burgers, Thomas François
Thomas François Burgers
president of Transvaal
Simón Bolívar
Simón Bolívar
Venezuelan soldier and statesman
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
Beyers
C.F. Beyers
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Milner, detail of an oil painting by Hugh de Twenebrokes Glazebrook, 1901; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Alfred Milner, Viscount Milner
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J.B.M. Hertzog
prime minister of South Africa
Theophilus Shepstone.
Sir Theophilus Shepstone
British South African statesman
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Boer South African leader
Andries Hendrik Potgieter
Boer leader
Andries Pretorius, portrait (artist unknown).
Andries Pretorius
Boer South African leader
Christiaan Rudolf de Wet
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president of Orange Free State
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emperor of Vietnam
Amyrtaeus of Sais
king of Egypt
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Oliver Cromwell
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