3-071-214 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Revolt in the Transvaal: the Market-Square, Potchefstroom, 1881. 'We...present a view of the Market Square at Potchefstroom, where the actual revolt began, on Dec. 16, by a Dutchman hauling down the British flag, upon which Captain Lambart shot him, and wounded him. The Provisional Government, for the restoration of the independent Republic, had been proclaimed at Heidelberg two or three days before'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.