... Boers, having liberated themselves from British colonial rule after their Great Trek' between 1835 and the early 1840's, lived in the north of South Africa in the states Transvaal and Orange Free State. The British were content in the south, centered at Cape Colony. However, after the discovery of gold thousands of British, or Uitlanders (Outlanders), traveled north to the Boer ... in Pretoria, after initial Boer approval in Vereeniging. Encyclopedia Britannica summarized the terms of the treaty as thus, "It ended the independence of the South African Republic (i.e., Transvaal) and the ...

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... was fought to: "end the situation of Boer-British rivalry over the Transvaal" and many more historians would agree with him. In 1899, the forces of the Boer Republics, the Orange Free State and the South African Republic, fought against Britain's control over South Africa. They would not agree with Britain's ultimatum of the placement and reinforcing of British troops in ... ...

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