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Also Known As Gerrit Maritz
Born 1876 • Kimberley • South Africa
Died December 19, 1940 (aged 64) • Pretoria • South Africa
Role In Battle of Blood River
Jan Smuts.
Jan Smuts
South African statesman
Louis Botha
Louis Botha
prime minister of Union of South Africa
J.B.M. Hertzog
prime minister of South Africa
Andries Hendrik Potgieter
Boer leader
Andries Pretorius, portrait (artist unknown).
Andries Pretorius
Boer South African leader
Joubert, Petrus Jacobus
Petrus Jacobus Joubert
South African politician
Christiaan Rudolf de Wet
Boer statesman
de la Rey, Jacobus Hercules
Jacobus Hercules de la Rey
Boer leader
Isaac Schapera
South African anthropologist
Boer Gen. Pieter Arnoldus Cronjé (left) surrendering to British Field Marshal Lord Roberts, 1900, during the South African War (1899–1902).
Pieter Arnoldus Cronjé
Boer general
Yasser Arafat
Yasser Arafat
Palestinian leader
Jair Bolsonaro
Jair Bolsonaro
president of Brazil
Józef Piłsudski
Józef Piłsudski
Polish revolutionary and statesman
Toussaint Louverture
Toussaint Louverture
Haitian leader
Bernardo O’Higgins
Chilean head of state
Suharto
Suharto
president of Indonesia
João Lourenço
João Lourenço
president of Angola
Joachim Murat
Joachim Murat
king of Naples
Moshe Dayan.
Moshe Dayan
Israeli statesman
Artúr Görgey
Artúr Görgey
Hungarian army officer