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Adriaan van Jaarsveld
Adriaan van Jaarsveld was a frontier farmer and commando leader on the eastern border of the Dutch Cape Colony, known for campaigns against the Xhosa. In February 1795 he and Marthinus Prinsloo led the burghers of Graaff-Reinet in expelling the landdrost Honoratus Maynier and declaring a short-lived republic. He was later arrested for forgery and rebellion and died in prison in Cape Town.
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