As Per Scans.Circa 1855 ORANGE RIVER SOVEREIGNTY MAP - Genuine Map Not a Reprint.Please Read Info Below.
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The Orange River Sovereignty 1848–1854 was a short-lived political entity between the Orange and Vaal rivers in Southern Africa.Sir Harry Smith proclaimed British sovereignty over the Transorange on 3 February 1848.In October 1849 King Moshesh was induced to sign a new arrangement considerably curtailing the boundaries of the Basuto reserve. The frontier towards the Sovereignty was thereafter known as the Warden line. A little later the reserves of other chieftains were precisely defined.
In 1851 Moshesh joined the republican party in the Sovereignty in an invitation to Andries Pretorius to recross the Vaal. The intervention of Pretorius resulted in the Sand River Convention of 1852, which acknowledged the independence of the Transvaal but left the status of the Sovereignty untouched.
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The British government which had reluctantly agreed to the annexation of the country repented its decision and had resolved to abandon the Sovereignty. Lord Grey (the 3rd earl), secretary of state for the colonies, in a dispatch to Sir Harry Smith dated the 21st of October 1851, declared, "The ultimate abandonment of the Orange Sovereignty should be a settled point in our policy." A meeting of representatives of all European inhabitants of the Sovereignty, elected on manhood suffrage, held at Bloemfontein in June 1852, nevertheless declared in favor of the retention of British rule.
Sir George Russell Clerk was sent out in 1853 as special commissioner "for the settling and adjusting of the affairs" of the Sovereignty, and in August of that year he summoned a meeting of delegates to determine upon a form of self-governrnent.Sir George Clerk announced that, as the elected delegates were unwilling to take steps to form an independent government, he would enter into negotiations with other persons. While the elected delegates sent two members to England to try and induce the government to alter their decision Sir George Clerk speedily came to terms with a committee formed by the republican party and presided over by Mr J. H. Hoffman. Even before this committee met a royal proclamation had been signed (January 30, 1854) "abandoning and renouncing all dominion" in the Sovereignty.
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On 23 February 1854 the Orange River Convention(Bloemfontein Convention) was signed by Sir George Clerk and the republican committee recognizing the independence of the country. The British garrison left Bloemfontein on 11 March 1854. The Boer government then assumed office and the republican flag was hoisted establishing the Orange Free Stateas a Republic.
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