Piet Retief
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Pieter Retief was a Voortrekker leader. Settling in 1814 in the frontier region of the Cape Colony, he later assumed command of punitive expeditions during the sixth Xhosa War. He became a spokesperso
Statue at the Voortrekker Monument
The Piet Retief Delegation massacre was a mass killing of 100 voortrekkers by the Zulu King Dingane in what is now KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The voortrekkers, led by Piet Retief who migrated into t
Piet Retief
…Natal as the final destination of their migration and selected a location for its future capital, later named Pietermaritzburg in his honour. The massacre of Retief and his delegation by the Zulu King Dingane and the extermination of several Voortrekker laagercamps in the area of the present town of Weenen…
Memorial to the Piet Retief delegation massacre.
A voortrekker encampment resisting a unexpected attack by an impi of King Dingane, as depicted by Charles Bell