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Jacobus 'Koos' de la Rey (Also Known as the Lion of the West-Transvaal) was an innovative South African general during t...
17/10/2024

Jacobus 'Koos' de la Rey (Also Known as the Lion of the West-Transvaal) was an innovative South African general during the 2nd Anglo-Boer War. He started his life on the farm of Doornfontein in the district of Winburg, South Africa on the 22nd of October, 1947. At the age of 18 (1865 Basotho War) he entered his first war, and by 23 he was already finished with his second war.
In the Second Boer War, he fought many battles including Kraaipan, Graspan, Modder Rivier. He also devised the trench warfare tactics that led to the Boer's success at Magersfontein.
At Tweebosch, on 7 March 1902, General Methuen tried to encircle De la Rey but was himself captured with 600 men. It would have been easy for the embittered men to finish off their chief
opponent because it was impossible for them to support prisoners and they had no means of tending to Methuen& #39; injuries (he had been shot and his leg had been fractured). De la Rey was still grieving for the loss of his son and his men were pressuring him to execute the general. Instead, he treated the British general with utmost civility and sent him back to his own lines - this act of chivalry unparalleled in the war, from de la Rey, leaving a lasting bond between Methuen and de la Rey.
He remained fighting as a "bittereinderner" until the end of the war. He said he and his men were resolved not to give up their independence, but with everything sacrificed it seemed fruitless to
waste more lives when their survival as a nation was at stake. Finally, Botha and de la Rey persuaded
De Wet agreed to piece for the sake of the nation.
"I will do my duty as the Volksraad wishes, and you will still find me in the
field long after you and this rabble that wage war with their mouths have fled this land"

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Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger ; (10 October 1825 – 14 July 1904) was a South African politician. He was one of the do...
15/10/2024

Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger ; (10 October 1825 – 14 July 1904) was a South African politician. He was one of the dominant political and military figures in 19th-century South Africa, and State President of the South African Republic (or Transvaal) from 1883 to 1900. Nicknamed Oom Paul ("Uncle Paul"), he came to international prominence as the face of the Boer cause—that of the Transvaal and its neighbour the Orange Free State—against Britain during the Second Boer War of 1899–1902. He has been called a personification of Afrikanerdom, and remains a controversial figure; admirers venerate him as a tragic folk hero.�He took part in the Great Trek as a child during the late 1830s. At the age of 11 he killed a lion to save his uncle’s life. He had almost no education apart from the Bible. A protégé of the Voortrekker leader Andries Pretorius, he witnessed the signing of the Sand River Convention with Britain in 1852.�Kruger was appointed Vice President in March 1877, shortly before the South African Republic was annexed by Britain as the Transvaal. Over the next three years he headed two deputations to London to try to have this overturned. He became the leading figure in the movement to restore the South African Republic's independence, culminating in the Boers' victory in the First Boer War of 1880–1881. Kruger served until 1883 as a member of an executive triumvirate, then was elected President. In 1884 he headed a third deputation that brokered the London Convention, under which Britain recognized the South African Republic as a completely independent state.�Britain dominated Kruger's attention for the rest of his presidency, to which he was re-elected in 1888, 1893 and 1898, and led to the Jameson Raid of 1895–1896 and ultimately the Second Boer War. Kruger left for Europe as the war turned against the Boers in 1900 and spent the rest of his life in exile, refusing to return home following the British victory.�Gezina, with whom Kruger had had 16 children—nine sons, seven daughters (of whom some died young), had eight sickly grandchildren transferred to her from the concentration camp at Krugersdorp, where their mother had died, in July 1901. Five of the eight children died within nine days, and two weeks later Gezina also died. A "strange silence" enveloped Kruger thereafter. By now partially blind and almost totally deaf, he dictated his memoirs to his secretary Hermanus Christiaan "Madie" Bredell and Pieter Grobler during the latter part of 1901, �After he died in Switzerland at the age of 78 in 1904, his body was returned to South Africa for a state funeral, and buried in the Heroes' Acre in Pretoria.�“Kruger is the central figure of Boer history and one of the "most extraordinary" of South Africans”.

HAUT smoking pipes are individually handcrafted from African Wild Olive wood, in the image of an inspirational hero. The...
05/07/2024

HAUT smoking pipes are individually handcrafted from African Wild Olive wood, in the image of an inspirational hero. The beauty of the pipe is linked to its historical value, where the deeds of these heroes will inspire you every time you pick up, hold, and smoke your pipe. The wild olive used, comes from a specific area in the Northern Cape where the trees grow extremely slow due to the hot, dry summers and the cold winters. This makes for a unique grain feature inside the wood that adds to the beauty of each of our pipes.

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