Louis Tregardt
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Louis Johannes Tregardt, commonly spelled Trichardt was a farmer from the Cape Colony's eastern frontier, who became an early voortrekker leader. Shunning colonial authority, he emigrated in 1834 to live among the Xhosa across the native reserve frontier, before he crossed the Orange River into northern territory.
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The survivors' evacuation by sea from Delagoa Bay, 1839
Van Rensburg's trek branches off and ends with their extermination in 1836
The Louis Tregardt memorial garden in Maputo is situated near the Tregardt graves
Grandson Head of Transvaal State Artillery S. P. E. Trichard (1847 - 1907).Historical Figures from South Africa 6
About this person
Louis Johannes Tregardt, commonly spelled Trichardt was a farmer from the Cape Colony's eastern frontier, who became an early voortrekker leader. Shunning colonial authority, he emigrated in 1834 to live among the Xhosa across the native reserve frontier, before he crossed the Orange River into northern territory. His northward trek, along with fellow trekker Johannes (Hans) van Rensburg, was commenced in early 1836. He led his small party of emigrants, composed of seven Boer farmers, with their wives and thirty-four children & native servants, into the uncharted interior of South Africa, and settled for a year at the base of the Zoutpansberg.
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