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Major General Sir George Pomeroy Colley, (1 November 1835 – 27 February 1881)

He was an Irish British Army officer who became Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Natal and High Commissioner for South Eastern Africa. Colley was killed in action, at the Battle of Majuba Hill. 

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Henry Francis Fynn (1803-61). One of the greatest of the early Natal settlers and one of the few Europeans who could speak from personal acquaintance with the great Shaka.  

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Piet Retief (1780-1838) From the statue erected outside the former Church of the Vow, now Voortrekker Museum, Pietermaritzburg.

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Gert Maritz (1797-1838) Leader of the Great Trek, a wise counselor, great administrator, possessing a keen intelligence, yet he was fated never to enjoy peace and happiness in Natal.

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View of Port Natal from Claremont. 'Narrative of a Journey to the Zoolu Country: In South Africa'

Girl Guides of South Africa: Miss Agnes Bulley's Own

Audrey scorgie. Mrs Bulley.

Girl Guides of South Africa: Miss Agnes Bulley's Own

P.M.B. Sobantu village.

Girl Guides of South Africa: Miss Agnes Bulley's Own

P.M.B. Sobantu Village.

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Henry F. Fynn (1803-61)

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Aubrey Samuel Langley (1871-1939) This unforgettable personality was the headmaster of one of the two great schools of Natal, in this case, Durban High or D.H.S. as it is universally known.

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A group photograph of the Uys father and sons. They were the most famous fighters against the Zulus from Blood River onwards to the Zulu War of 1879. Their history is marked by a number of heroic deeds and stark family tragedies.

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When the Voortrekkers were ready to leave for Natal, the English settlers of the Eastern Province called various meetings to wish them Godspeed.

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Robert Douglas Clark (1846-1917). In his 23 years of office as the third headmaster of Maritzburg College and undoubtedly the man who gave the school its tone and atmosphere.

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D. Lindley, American Missionary

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This old blind voortrekker J.H. Labuschagne fought at Blood River Picture shows him with his apprehensive wife having their first photograph taken, probably in the 1870s.

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Silhouette sketch by Daphne Strutt of the ships of Vasco da Gama Portuguese seafarer, who anchored in a bay sheltered by a larger headland, presumed to be the Durban Bluff. The date was 28 December 1497.

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James Saunders King (1795-1828) Born in Halifax, New Brunswick, in 1795, he joined the Royal Navy as a ship's boy in 1806 and left it as a 20-year-old midshipman in 1815.

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A page from Fynn's manuscript diary, now kept in the Natal Archives.

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This statue commemorates a 15-year-old boy named John Ross who made a long and dangerous round trip of 600 miles (about 960km) from NAtal to Delagoa Bay (later Lourenco Marques, now Maputo) to obtain medicines and ship supplies for the Port Natal settlers. Apprenticed to Lieut. J.S.

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Site of Farewell's camp- Durban centre

This aerial photograph shows Farewell's campsite as it is today, embedded in the business centre of Durban.

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