File:Kruger's Last View of Africa.jpg
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President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Kruger" class="extiw" title="en:Paul Kruger">en:Paul Kruger</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_Republic" class="extiw" title="en:South African Republic">en:South African Republic</a> (left) leaving Delagoa Bay, Mozambique on 20 October 1900 aboard <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HNLMS_Gelderland_(1898)" class="extiw" title="en:HNLMS Gelderland (1898)">en:HNLMS Gelderland (1898)</a>, looking back towards the shore. He spent the rest of his life in exile in Europe and never saw South Africa again. His biographer Johannes Meintjes calls this "one of the most striking and moving photographs ever taken of President Paul Kruger." The man on the right is Manie Bredell, who served as the President's private secretary for the rest of his life. Kruger died in Switzerland in 1904.
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| current | 19:53, 13 January 2017 | | 2,785 × 4,038 (7.9 MB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Kruger" class="extiw" title="en:Paul Kruger">en:Paul Kruger</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_Republic" class="extiw" title="en:South African Republic">en:South African Republic</a> <i>(left)</i> leaving Delagoa Bay, Mozambique on 20 October 1900 aboard <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HNLMS_Gelderland_(1898)" class="extiw" title="en:HNLMS Gelderland (1898)">en:HNLMS Gelderland (1898)</a>, looking back towards the shore. He spent the rest of his life in exile in Europe and never saw South Africa again. His biographer Johannes Meintjes calls this "one of the most striking and moving photographs ever taken of President Paul Kruger." The man on the right is Manie Bredell, who served as the President's private secretary for the rest of his life. Kruger died in Switzerland in 1904. |
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