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'Meeting of Boers at Paardekraal Held Every Years in Celebration of the Regaining of their Independence', c1900. The monument, in Krugersdorp, South Africa, commemorates the original site of vow made by Transvaal Boers on 13 December 1880, prior to the armed rebellion known as First Boer War, when they vowed to regain their independence from the British Empire. Illustration from a photograph. From "Cassell's History of England, Vol. IX". [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris, New York & Melbourne]