Oom Paul
Americannoun
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With a Bible in his pocket and a bandoleer over his shoulder, pudgy James Barry Munnik Hertzog fought the soldiers of Great Britain for three years as one of Oom Paul Kruger's Boer generals.
From Time Magazine Archive
After the Boer War she married a swashbuckling revolutionary named MacBride, who had fought as a major for Oom Paul Kruger.
From Time Magazine Archive
The sentence was commuted to 15 years' imprisonment, and after some months, thanks to a world-wide storm of protest and Oom Paul Krugers canniness, quashed.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Pretoria, Oom Paul Kruger's old Boer capital, the Minister of External Affairs Eric Louw talks of the eventual need to establish diplomatic relations with 'the independent black nations.
From Time Magazine Archive
The one great thing I did for Buno," Tuys went on, "was about two years ago when Oom Paul decided to discipline him.
From Adventures in Swaziland The Story of a South African Boer by Owen Rowe O'Neil
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