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Cronjé
[ Dutch krawn-yey ]
noun
- Piet Ar·nol·dus [peet ah, r, -, nawl, -d, oo, s], 1835?–1911, Boer general.
Cronje
/ 'krɒnjə /
noun
- CronjeHansie19692002MSouth AfricanSPORT AND GAMES: cricketer Hansie , full name Wessel Johannes Cronje (1969–2002); South African cricketer. He captained South Africa (1994–2000); banned for life from cricket for match-fixing in 2001
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Even the news of Cronjé's surrender, which was soon after made public, did not have more than a transient effect.
Cronjé evidently doesn't think we can, for he has just sent us in a message offering us twenty-four hours to clear out in.
Old Cronjé's apparent object is to try and save Bloemfontein by delaying us till reinforcements come up from the south and east.
Commandant Cronjé, with a party of burghers, marched into Potchefstroom for the purpose of printing the proclamation.
In the case of Potchefstrom, the execution of this design was treacherously prevented by Commandant Cronjé.
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