Word: pretoria
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...three main arguments. To his first statement that England should have accepted the Boer proposals of the nineteenth and twenty-first of August, Bruce replied by saying that the acceptance of these proposals would have meant the giving up of all future international rights. In the convention at Pretoria suzerainty and independent local government were granted together. The Transvaal was not entirely independent, because England had power to make treaties and England was justified in interfering, because the articles stipulated in the convention of 1884 had been broken...
...Boer government. Although the townspeople wished to be annexed to England when the Boers were driven out in 1878, the Boer farmers objected, and on being refused independence by Gladstone, revolted, but after defeating the English at Majuba Hill, they received self-government by the Convention of Pretoria...