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    The Battle of Boomplaats (also referred to as the Battle of Boomplaas) was fought near Jagersfontein at 29°50′53.47″S 25°38′56.54″E / 29.8481861°S 25...
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    Boer republics (category History of South Africa)
    against the British forces later that year, leading to the Battle of Boomplaats on 29 August 1848, in which the British emerged victorious. The Volksraad...
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    Andries Pretorius (category Members of the Volksraad of the South African Republic)
    August, he was defeated at Boomplaats by Smith and retreated to the north of the Vaal. He became leader of one of the largest of the parties into which the...
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  • 1848 in South Africa (category Years of the 19th century in South Africa)
    across the Vaal River. 29 August - Battle of Boomplaats is fought between the Voortrekkers and the British. The settlement of Zoutpansberg is established, which...
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    Koos de la Rey (category Members of the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa)
    family in South Africa, came from Utrecht, Netherlands. After the Battle of Boomplaats, the family farm was confiscated by the British and the family trekked...
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  • with a unique system of coin-operated water pumps, using so-called Water Pennies, situated on street corners. Battle of Boomplaats 2022 Jagersfontein Dam...
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    at the Battle of Boomplaats, about 30 km from the current Fauresmith. On August 30, 1851, a meeting was held at Sannahspoort. The heading of the minutes...
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  • fought the Boers in the Battle of Boomplaats. The British came out victorious and one of the boundary lines created after this battle was called the Warden...
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    Johannes Hermanus Michiel Kock (category Second Boer War prisoners of war held by the United Kingdom)
    Battle of Swartkoppies and at age 13 at the Battle of Boomplaats. After the battle of Swartkoppies the family settled in Winburg and after Boomplaats...
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  • Xhosa War during 1846, then saw action against the Boers at the Battle of Boomplaats in August 1848 and went on to fight in the 8th Xhosa War during 1850...
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    Sir Harry Smith, 1st Baronet (category People of the Battle of Waterloo)
    and fought the Battle of Boomplaats on 29 August 1848. It has been asserted that "the half-mad Smith's" seizure of the entire region of "British Kaffraria"...
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    struggle. They were, however, defeated by Sir Harry Smith in the Battle of Boomplaats on 29 August 1848. Thereupon Pretorius, with those most bitterly...
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  • Lists of battles Before 301 301–1300 1301–1600 1601–1800 1801–1900 1901–2000 2001–current Naval Sieges See also List of Napoleonic Battles Battles of the...
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    This is a timeline of the history of the area in present-day South Africa....
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    Paul Kruger (category Members of the Volksraad of the South African Republic)
    commando raid against this, and they were defeated by Smith at the Battle of Boomplaats. Like the Krugers, Pretorius lived in the Magaliesberg mountains...
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    enjoyed the spiritual work of Andrew Murray and A.A. Louw. On 30 November 1848, three months after the Battle of Boomplaats, the congregation was founded...
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    leader Andries Pretorius, who had been asked to lead the Boers at the Battle of Boomplaats (September 1848) "I am ready—let there be no mistake and no delay...
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    region beyond the Orange River of the later Orange Free State. As a young boy he participated in the lost Battle of Boomplaats against the British on August...
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    government that ruled the Free State after the Battle of Boomplaats. His new role meant that he had to collect taxes (of which he could keep 10%), he married couples...
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    Jacobus Philippus Snyman (category South African Republic military personnel of the Second Boer War)
    not before participating in the Battle of Boomplaats in 1848 where they tried, unsuccessfully to drive the British out of the Free State after Britain had...
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  • until 1854, commanding a company at the Battle of Boomplaats in South Africa in 1848 and rising to the rank of lieutenant. He later served with the Royal...
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  • Wars (1876–1879) Battle of Congella 1842 Battle of Zwartkoppies between local Boer farmers and the Griqua people 1845 Battle of Boomplaats 1848 The Boers...
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  • after the battle of Boomplaats he returned as British Resident of the Orange River Sovereignty. From 1848 to 1852 he laid the foundations of an administration...
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    Adam Render (category Immigrants to the Colony of Natal)
    the British at the Battle of Boomplaats in 1848. The same year Renders is believed to have settled in Zoutpansberg in the north-east of the Transvaal. He...
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    Queen's Fort Military Museum (category Military history of South Africa)
    institution, and a prison. The idea to erect this building came after the Battle of Boomplaats (fought near Jagersfontein between the British and the Voortrekker...
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    George Buller (category Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath)
    in the War against Pretorius, and on 29 August led the attack on the Boomplaats, where he was severely wounded, and had his horse killed under him. His...
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    who in 1848 mounted an abortive rebellion at Boomplaats, where the Boers were defeated by a detachment of the Cape Mounted Rifles. Annexation also precipitated...
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    Mpumalanga (category Provinces of South Africa)
    seen as inadequate to address the extent of apartheid spatial planning. In 2001, 1,270 hectares of the Boomplaats farm near Mashishing was the first farm...
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    coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) This is a list of the heritage sites in Free State in South Africa as recognized by the South...
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  • Bokoni (category History of Mpumalanga)
    engravings do. There is also an aspect of 'masculinity' argued by some to be present in the engravings of the Boomplaats area and beyond, potentially created...
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