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Christiaan de Wet
1922Feb, 5

Christiaan de Wet

Christiaan de Wet, South African general and politician, State President of the Orange Free State (b. 1854)
Christiaan Rudolf de Wet (7 October 1854 – 3 February 1922) was a Boer general, rebel leader and politician.

Born on the Leeuwkop farm, in the district of Smithfield in the Boer Republic of the Orange Free State, he later resided at Dewetsdorp, named after his father, Jacobus Ignatius de Wet.

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