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Paul and Kruger
This led the key figure in organizing the resistance, Paul Kruger, into conflict with the British.
* Paul Kruger, president of the Transvaal Republic
* 1904 – Paul Kruger, South African Boer resistance leader, 5th President of the South African Republic ( b. 1824 )
The rounds often depict Paul Kruger and a springbok antelope, some even blatantly copying the design of the Krugerrands themselves, though the inscriptions are altered.
The Krugerrand depicts President Paul Kruger ( 1825-1904 ) on the obverse with the name of the issuing country in both Afrikaans and English appearing in the legend, while the Obverse and reverse | reverse depicts a springbok ( antelope ) | springbok antelope with the mint date in the field.
The Krugerrand is so named because the obverse, designed by Otto Schultz, bears the face of Boer statesman Paul Kruger, four-term president of the old South African Republic.
In 1926, the government of South Africa designated Kruger National Park as the nation's first national park, although it was an expansion of the earlier Sabie Game Reserve established in 1898 by President Paul Kruger of the old South African Republic, after whom the park was named.
* 1825 – Paul Kruger, President of the Transvaal Republic ( d. 1904 )
Peaceful overtures having failed, Pretorius and Paul Kruger placed themselves at the head of a commando which crossed the Vaal with the object of enforcing union, but the Free State compelled their withdrawal.
Paul Kruger, who lived near Rustenburg, became a strong adherent of the new church.
In 1867 Schoemansdal and a considerable portion of the district were abandoned on the advice of Commandant-general Paul Kruger, and Schoemansdal finally was burnt to ashes by a party of natives.
State President Paul Kruger at his fourth inauguration, Pretoria, 1898
** Paul Kruger, South African resistance leader ( b. 1825 )
* December 30 – The Transvaal becomes a republic and Paul Kruger becomes its first president.
* October 10 – Paul Kruger, Boer resistance leader ( d. 1904 )
Paul Kruger, the President of the South African Republic, issued an ultimatum on 9 October 1899, giving the British government 48 hours to withdraw all their troops from the borders of both the Transvaal and the Orange Free State, failing which the Transvaal, allied to the Orange Free State, would declare war on the British government.
An armistice followed, ending the war, and subsequently a peace treaty was signed with the Transvaal President Paul Kruger.
Not only was this tax perceived as exorbitant, but British interests were offended when President Paul Kruger gave monopoly rights for the manufacture of the explosive to a non-British branch of the Nobel company, which infuriated the British.
President Paul Kruger proceeded to re-equip the Transvaal army, and imported 37, 000 of the latest magazine Mauser rifles, and some 40 to 50 million rounds of ammunition.
The Zoutpansberg Boers formed a semi-independent community, and in 1857 Stephanus Schoeman, their commandant-general, sided against Marthinus Pretorius and Paul Kruger when they invaded the Orange Free State.
Dirk Postma came from Zwolle to the South African Republic in 1858, and was accepted as a minister of the Hervormde Kerk, but on learning that he and his congregation could be required to sing hymns ( rather than the Psalms only ), he and the Doppers, numbering about 300 adults, among whom was the later President Paul Kruger, broke away from the state church to form the Gereformeerde Kerk in Rustenburg in February 1859.
It was within this denomination that Paul Kruger arose.
Voortrekker ' Uncle ' Paul Kruger, first president of the South African Republic upon its reacquired independence after the brief British annexation, adopted the Calvinstic principles in its political form, and formulated the Boer cultural mandate based on the Afrikaner Calvinist conviction that the South Africans had a special calling from God, not unlike the people of Israel in the Bible.

Paul and leader
Paul Kolton was named as president of the exchange in 1971, making him the first person to be selected from within the exchange to serve as its leader, succeeding Ralph S. Saul, who announced his resignation in March 1971.
Titus was an early Christian leader, a companion of Saint Paul, mentioned in several of the Pauline epistles.
Paul considered Apollos to be an apostle ( 1 Cor 4: 6, 9-13 ) who became a leader in the important Corinthian congregation.
Hawke was defeated as Labor leader in a 1991 spill against Paul Keating.
There is a distinction between " Marxism " and " what Marx believed "; for example, shortly before he died in 1883, Marx wrote a letter to the French workers ' leader Jules Guesde, and to his own son-in-law Paul Lafargue, accusing them of " revolutionary phrase-mongering " and of lack of faith in the working class.
* 1949 – Paul Shaffer, Canadian orchestra leader
Although Ismar Ehrlich was the leader of the local Jewish community, he nevertheless gave his son the Christian name “ Paul ”.
* Epistle to Philemon, a book in the New Testament, it is a prison letter by Paul of Tarsus to Philemon, a leader in the Colossian church
Also in that year, " The Huckle-Buck ", recorded by band leader and saxophonist Paul Williams, was the # 1 R & B tune, remaining on top of the charts for nearly the entire year.
The party has also attracted notables in the anti-abortion movement such as Dr. Gregory Thompson, Lon Mabon, Paul deParrie, and Missionaries to the Preborn leader Pastor Matthew Trewhella.
* Paul Revere, American revolutionary leader and silversmith
* Paul Martin replaces Jean Chrétien as Prime Minister of Canada in 2003 by becoming the new leader of the Liberal Party.
Labor's Paul Keating loses to Liberal leader John Howard
* January 30 – John Howard becomes leader of the Liberal Party of Australia to challenge Paul Keating for the 1996 Federal Election and the position of Prime Minister of Australia.
** Paul Baloche, American Christian worship leader
* December 16 – In New York City, Mafia bosses Paul Castellano and Thomas Bilotti are shot dead in front of Spark's Steak House, making hit organizer John Gotti the leader of the powerful Gambino organized crime family.
** Nazi leader Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany by President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg.
He fought for the release of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society leader, Paul Watson, who was convicted in 1994 for sinking a Norwegian whaling vessel.
In Queen of the Empire by Paul Davids and Hollace Davids, she is kidnapped by the " Prophets of the Dark Side ", who try to brainwash her into pledging her loyalty to the Empire and marry their leader, Trioculus.
Drexler was encouraged to found the DAP by his mentor, Dr. Paul Tafel, a leader of the Alldeutscher Verband ( Pan-Germanist Union ), a director of the Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg, also a member of the Thule Society, and his wish was for a party which was both in touch with the masses and nationalist, unlike the middle class parties.
In the subsequent leadership struggle, Gorton was championed by Army Minister Malcolm Fraser and Liberal Party Whip Dudley Erwin, and with their support he was able to defeat his main rival, External Affairs Minister Paul Hasluck, to become Liberal leader even though he was a member of the Senate.

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