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    The Maritz rebellion, also known as the Boer revolt, Third Boer War, or the Five Shilling rebellion, was an armed pro-German insurrection in South Africa...
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    Manie Maritz (26 July 1876 – 20 December 1940), also known as Gerrit Maritz, was a Boer officer during the Second Boer War and a leading rebel of the pro-German...
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  • Gerhardus Jacobus Maritz KC (7 December 1889 – 16 July 1964) was a South African judge who served as Judge President of the Transvaal Provincial Division...
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    former Boers who had fought with the Maritz rebels against the British in the Second Boer War. The self-proclaimed rebel republic allied with Germany, with...
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    Botha government to attack German South West Africa but did not condone the Maritz rebellion. Liebenberg was born near Hoopstad in Orange Free State to Christiaan...
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    war, several thousand Boer rebels rose in the Maritz Rebellion and re-founded the South African Republic in 1914. The rebels allied with Germany and operated...
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  • six-year sentence. Maritz had initially fled to Angola before returning to South Africa to serve three years. Only Jopie Fourie, a rebel who had not resigned...
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    scout and dispatch rider during the Boer War, he later took part in the Maritz Rebellion of 1914–1915 against General Louis Botha, the prime minister of...
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    republic came to a final end on 31 May 1902. It was later used by the Maritz Revolt rebels who declared a resurrection of the South African Republic in 1914...
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    what is now known as the Maritz Rebellion "refounded" the South African Republic in September 1914. Germany assisted the rebels, with some operating in...
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    South Africa. — Manie Maritz. Maritz and several other high-ranking officers rapidly gathered forces with a total of about 12,000 rebels in the Transvaal and...
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  • (2): 319–338. doi:10.1080/01436599913785. ISSN 0143-6597. Bosch, Shannon; Maritz, Marelie (2017-06-09). "South African Private Security Contractors Active...
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    join Manie Maritz in German South-West Africa. After a desert trek and much hardship they linked up with Maritz's company on 29 November. Rebels under De...
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  • General Louis Botha and Jan Smuts proceeded to destroy the Maritz Rebellion. The leading Boer rebels got off lightly with terms of imprisonment of six and...
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    Scottish (then called the Transvaal Scottish Volunteers). In 1914 during the Maritz Rebellion, when men who supported the recreation of a Boer South African...
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    delegate to the Closer Union Convention. De Wet was one of the leaders of the Maritz Rebellion which broke out in 1914. One of his sons was killed in the uprising...
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  • 28 January 2021 Torings (Drama), Wilson Dunster, Dawid Minnaar, Albert Maritz, Elize Cawood, Eklips Films, Leisureco, 12 May 1994, retrieved 28 January...
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    members of the government were former Boers who had fought with the Maritz rebels against the British in the Second Anglo-Boer War twelve years earlier...
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    in Dhofar, free from the rule of the Omani Sultan Said bin Taimur. The rebels also held the broader goals of Arab nationalism which included ending British...
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    contained only with the rebels' defeat in Gwalior on 20 June 1858. On 1 November 1858, the British granted amnesty to all rebels not involved in murder...
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    April 1760 to 1761. Spearheaded by self-emancipated Coromantee people, the rebels were led by a Fante royal named Tacky. It was the most significant slave...
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    were themselves former Boer military leaders who had fought with the Maritz rebels against the British in the Second Boer War. The rebellion was put down...
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    long after De la Rey's funeral the short-lived Maritz rebellion broke out and De Wet, Beyers, General Maritz, commander of a force on the border of the German...
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    voted against the peace terms. During World War I, Kemp participated in the Maritz rebellion. He was captured on 2 February 1915. A South African court found...
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    fighting mainly consisted of sniping and long-range gun battles. The main rebel positions were gradually surrounded and bombarded with artillery. There...
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    century. The town was a starting point for Great Trek groups led by Gerrit Maritz and Piet Retief and furnished large numbers of the Voortrekkers in 1835–1842...
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  • sent a Teheran detachment of 688 people and with two guns to deal with the rebels. The detachment made a 70-mile march and was ambushed by 2,000 After the...
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  • and September 1830. Primarily comprising farmers and minor officials, the rebels were bolstered by the support of some local rulers and mercenaries. The...
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    Novgorod government), December 12, 1905. "Pacification": the army burning a rebel peasant's farm in Georgia, 1908. In a Europe where the principle of the...
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    General de la Rey had been assassinated by the government. Lt-Col Manie Maritz, who was head of a commando of Union forces on the border of German South...
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