Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger Quotes
The Lord will protect you now, even if thousands of bullets fly around you.
The American Indian protection assurances from demagogues and ghost dancers, had a parallel among the white Afrikaners. Many who believed him died from bullet wounds.
Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, 1825-1904, Founder and President of the South African Republic (Transvaal), Speech to his Boer followers at the Transvaal Raad (Parliament) as the members departed for their commands, Pretoria, 1899
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The White Africaners were attacking the Blacks to force them off their land so the Afrkaners could take over. The country was under British rule and the unarmed Blacks were being slaughtered by the Afrikaners who were British Subjects. Eventually the Boer War set the English against the Afrikaners. See {583902} for a related quotation.
He was not supported and a peace was negotiated with the British. De la Rey became a Senator and later was shot while trying to organize another rebellion.
They killed him immediately after. The Cardinal had overthrown Scottish liberties, and tortured and murdered Protestants. Three months earlier, he had burned at the stake George Wishart, a very popular Reformer. In the history of religious persecution between Protestants and Catholics each group wreaked vengeance on innocent members of the other group while the murderers generally remained safe in their positions of power. In this case however, friends of Wishart broke into the Cardinal’s castle and executed Beacon. They hanged his naked body by one ankle out of the window, facing the place where George Wishart had been murdered.
The Catawabas fought in the South with the English against the French and Spanish. In this case they asked for “military assistance” which was provided in terms of the fort which was built and provision of powder and ammunition. Later the Catawabas sided with the Americans in the Revolution.
The Confession was a statement of doctrine to which the Swiss Anabaptists adopted.
Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger was a South African politician. He was one of the dominant political and military figures in 19th-century South Africa, and 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.
