Bloemfontein, convention of
Bloemfontein, convention of, 1854. The British government was puzzled by the Great Trek of 1836–7 when thousands of Boer farmers moved out of the Cape and left British jurisdiction. In 1845 it annexed Natal and in 1848 Sir Harry Smith followed up by annexing the Orange River Territory, pursuing the Boers. But it was difficult to establish effective control and in 1852 the British signed the Sand River convention acknowledging the independence of the Boers in the Transvaal in the hope that they would not assist the Boers in the Orange River Territory. But the Orange River Territory remained unstable and, in a startling switch of policy in 1854, by the Bloemfontein convention, power was handed back to the Boers in the form of a provisional government. This arrangement did not prove satisfactory and two Boer wars later resulted.
J. A. Cannon
More From encyclopedia.com
Northwest Territory , Northwest Territories, territory (2001 pop. 37,360), 532,643 sq mi (1,379,028 sq km), NW Canada. The Northwest Territories lie W of Nunavut, N of lat… Andries Pretorius , Andries Pretorius
Andries Pretorius (1798-1853) was a South African political leader and general and till his death the most prominent and colorful A… River , River
A river is a natural stream of freshwater that is larger than a brook or creek. Rivers are normally the main channels or largest tributaries of… Tennessee (river) , TENNESSEE River, formed by the confluence of the Holston River and the French Broad River, near Knoxville, Tennessee, follows a serpentine course int… Streamflow , RIVERS
RIVERS . Among the Native American Yurok people, who live along the Yurok River in northern California, orientation in the world was not provi… Dordogne (river) , Dordogne River in sw France. Rising in the Auvergne hills, it is formed by the convergence of the Dor and Dogne rivers. It flows sw then w to meet th…
You Might Also Like
NEARBY TERMS
Bloemfontein, convention of