Transvaal independence movement

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The Transvaal independence movement was a late 19th-century Boer nationalist struggle to restore the South African Republic’s sovereignty from British imperial rule.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Boer nationalist movement
independence movement
political movement
country South African Republic
endTime 1881
followedBy tensions leading to the Second Boer War
goal end of British annexation of Transvaal
restoration of South African Republic independence
self-determination for Boer population of Transvaal
hasCause Boer dissatisfaction with British administration
British Empire in South Africa
surface form: British annexation of the South African Republic
hasEffect establishment of the South African Republic as a de facto independent Boer state after 1881
strengthening of Afrikaner national consciousness
hasPart Boer resistance to British annexation of Transvaal (1877–1881)
First Boer War
ideology Afrikaner republicanism
Boer nationalism
language Afrikaans
Dutch
location South Africa
Southern Africa
Transvaal
mainSubject South African Republic sovereignty
opponent British Army
British colonial administration in the Transvaal
United Kingdom
opposedTo British Empire
British imperial rule
participant Afrikaners
surface form: Boers

South African Republic government-in-exile leaders
Boer forces
surface form: Transvaal burghers
partOf Boer resistance to British rule in Southern Africa
history of British imperialism in Africa
history of the South African Republic
religiousContext Calvinist Protestantism among Boers
result Pretoria Convention
surface form: Pretoria Convention (1881)

recognition of Boer self-government under British suzerainty
restoration of limited independence to the South African Republic
significantEvent Battle of Bronkhorstspruit
Battle of Laing's Nek
surface form: Battle of Laing’s Nek (1881)

Battle of Majuba Hill
surface form: Battle of Majuba Hill (1881)

Battle of Schuinshoogte (Ingogo) (1881)
British annexation of the Transvaal in 1877
Siege of Pretoria
surface form: Siege of Pretoria (1880–1881)

Transvaal independence movement self-linksurface differs
surface form: Transvaal uprising of 1880
startTime 1877
temporalContext late 19th century

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Battle of Majuba Hill associatedWith Transvaal independence movement
Siege of Pretoria partOf Transvaal independence movement
this entity surface form: Boer uprisings in Transvaal
Transvaal independence movement significantEvent Transvaal independence movement self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Transvaal uprising of 1880