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Extracts from the report of a meeting in 1899 between a senior British official and the Boer leader Paul Kruger
(Catalogue ref: DO 119/556)
Catalogue ref: DO 119/556; report of meeting between British and Boer leaders, 1899
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  • the British giving independence to some countries in the empire?
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