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GRAAFF REINET , a See also:town of See also:South See also:Africa, 185 m. by See also:rail N.W. by N. of See also:Port See also:Elizabeth. Pop. (1904) 10,083, of whom 4055 were whites. The town lies 2463 ft. above the See also:sea and is built on the. See also:banks of the See also:Sunday See also:river,which rises a little farther See also:north on the See also:southern slopes of the Sneeuwberg, and here ramifies into several channels. The Dutch See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church is a handsome See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone See also:building with seating See also:accommodation for 1500 See also:people. The See also:college is an educational centre of some importance; it was rebuilt in 1906. Graaff Reinet is a flourishing See also:market for agricultural produce, the See also:district being noted for its See also:mohair See also:industry, its orchards and vineyards.
The town was founded by the Cape Dutch in 1786, being named after the then See also:governor of Cape See also:Colony, C. J. See also:van de Graaff, and his wife. In 1795 the burghers, smarting under the exactions of the Dutch See also:East See also:India See also:Company proclaimed a See also:republic. Similar See also:action was taken by the burghers of See also:Swellendam. Before the authorities at Cape Town could take decisive See also:measures against the rebels, they were themselves compelled to capitulate to the See also:British. The burghers having endeavoured, unsuccessfully, to get aid from a See also:French warship at Algoa See also:Bay surrendered to See also:Colonel (afterwards See also:General See also:Sir) J. O. Vandeleur. In See also:January 1799 Marthinus Prinsloo, the See also:leader of the republicans in 1795, again rebelled, but surrendered in See also:April following. Prinsloo and nineteen others were imprisoned in Cape Town See also:castle. After trial, Prinsloo and another commandant were sentenced to See also:death and others to banishment. The sentences were notcarried out and the prisoners were released, See also:March 1803, on the retrocession of the Cape to See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland. In r8or there had been another revolt in Graaff Reinet, but owing to the conciliatory measures of General F. Dundas (acting governor of the Cape) See also:peace was soon restored. It was this district, where a republican See also:government in South Africa was first proclaimed, which furnished large See also:numbers of the voortrekkers in 1835-1842. It remains a strong Dutch centre.
See J. C. Voight, Fifty Years of the See also:History of the Republic in South Africa 1795-1845, vol. i. (See also:London, 1899).
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