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Paul Kruger

South African politician (1825–1904)

This article is about the South African politician. For others of the same name, see Paul Kruger (disambiguation).

Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger (Afrikaans pronunciation:[ˈkry.(j)ər]; 10 October 1825 – 14 July 1904), better known as Paul Kruger, 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 admirers venerate him as a tragic folk hero.

Born near the eastern edge of the Cape Colony, Kruger took part in the Great Trek as a child during the late 1830s. He had almost no education apart from the Bible. A protégé of the Voortrekker leader Andries Pretorius, he witnessed the sign

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Paul Kruger Timeline 1825-1904

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1825

Paul Kruger is born to Casper Jan Hendrik Kruger and Elsie Francina Steyn

1835

Paul Kruger's father situated on the Caledon river

1836

The Krugers become Voortrekkers, the young Paul Kruger becomes witness to the battle of Vegkop against Mzilikazi.

1838

Paul Kruger's parents cross the Vaal river and establish the first Transvaal town, Potchefstroom.

1842

Paul Kruger marries Maria du Plessis. Kruger is granted the Waterkloof farm near Rustenburg.

1845

Paul Kruger moves to Ohrigstad in the eastern Transvaal.

1846

Paul Kruger's wife, Maria du Plessis dies.

1847

Paul Kruger marries his first wife's cousin, Gezina Susanna Frederika Wilhelmina du Plessis.

1850

Paul Kruger collects signatures to object to the appointment of a military leader by the volksraad.

1851

Paul Kruger becomes field-cornet of his area, an important position in the young Transvaal republic.September- instructed Pretorius to negotiate with the British to recognise the independence of Transvaal V

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Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger

Paul Kruger is believed to have been born on 10 October 1825 on his grandfather's farm, Bulhoek, in the Cradock district, near the present day town of Steynsburg. At the age of ten his family set out as part of the Great Trek and he was brought up within the strict tenets of Dutch Calvinism.

Kruger fought in the Battle at Vegkop in 1836, where they fought against Mzilikazi. Shortly after this, he and his family accompanied Piet Retief on his trek to Natal. Here he also witnessed conflicts between the Voortrekkers and the Zulu, including the killing of a number of trekkers in the encampments along the Bloukrans and Bushmans rivers. Next, the family moved north with Hendrik Potgieter. Paul’s father and uncle were two of the founders of the town Potchefstroom, the first capital of what would later become the Zuid Afrikaanse Republiek(ZAR).

When Kruger was 16 he received his first farm near present-day Rustenburg, as was the custom, and named it Waterkloof, in the Magaliesberg. In 1842, he married Maria du Plessis, who was a Voortrekker girl from