Joachim Ferreira
{{Short description|Boer commandant}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2021}}
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|name = Joachim Johannes Ferreira
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|birth_date = {{birth date|1835|08|08}}
|birth_place = Utrecht, Klip River Republic, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
|death_date ={{death date and age|1917|05|17|1835|08|8}}
|death_place = Piet Retief, Transvaal Province, Union of South Africa
|placeofburial = Piet Retief, Eastvaal District Council, Mpumalanga, South Africa
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|rank = General
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|commands = Utrecht Commando
|battles = First Boer War
- Battle of Majuba Hill, 27 February 1881
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|spouse = Adriana Gertina Davel
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Joachim Johannes Ferreira (8 August 1835 – 16 May 1917) was a Boer commandant of the First Boer War.{{cite web |url=https://www.geni.com/people/Generaal-Joachim-Ferreira/6000000045990359226 |title=Generaal Joachim Johannes Ferreira |last= |first= |date=April 30, 2022 |website=geni.com |publisher=Geni. A MyHeritage Company |access-date=2 February 2023 |quote=}} This general J. Ferreira should not be confused with general I. Ferreira.
Family
Ferreira was born near Uitenhage, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa, as the eldest child of Marthinus Stephanus Ferreira (born 2 February 1810) and Aletta Prinsloo (born 1815), with a younger brother and sister. Young Ferreira was taken on the Great Trek as an infant. He married Adriana Gertina Davel (31 January 1848 – Piet Retief, Eastvaal District Council, Mpumalanga, 29 January 1929) and had a daughter by her.
Career
He settled near Swaziland with other Voortrekker families in what they called the Commonwealth of the Klein Vrystaat in 1875. At the same time, Swazi King Mbandzeni granted a 36,000-acre grazing concession to Ferreira and his son-in-law, Franz Ignatius Maritz,{{sfn|Jones|1993|p=384}} the largest concession to Boer settlers at the time.{{sfn|Laband|2014|p=40}}
Ferreira began during the First Boer War (1880-1881) as the commandant of the Utrecht commando, and went on to lead one of the two Boer divisions at the Battle of Majuba Hill on 27 February 1881. The other group was led by Stephanus Roos.Pakenham 1991, pp. 103-104. Ferreira was responsible for negotiating the transfer of land east of the Lebombo Mountains to the South African Republic. His plans were frustrated by the actions of Sir Charles Saunders who annexed the territory which became known as British Maputaland.
In the Second Boer War (1899-1902) Ferreira was a Boer general as well.Breytenbach 1973.
Joachim Ferreira died near Piet Retief on 16 May 1917.{{sfn|Uys|1992|p=78}}
Footnotes
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Bibliography
- {{cite book |last1=Breytenbach|first1=J. H. |author-link=Johan Hendrik Breytenbach |title=Die stryd in Natal, Jan. - Feb. 1900 |series=Die Geskiedenis van die Tweede Vryheidsoorlog in Suid-Afrika, 1899-1902 |publisher=Die Staatsdrukker |place=Pretoria |date=1973 |volume=III |lang=af}} Pages 3, 69, 260, 378, 380-386, 393, 480-481, and 533.
- {{cite book |last=Jones |first=H. M. |date=1993 |title=A Biographical Register of Swaziland to 1902 |publisher=University of Natal Press |isbn=9780869808801}}
- {{cite book |last=Laband |first=J. |author-link =John Laband |date=2014 |title=The Transvaal Rebellion: The First Boer War, 1880–1881 |publisher=Routledge |isbn= 9781317868460}}
- {{cite book |last=Pakenham |first=Thomas |author-link=Thomas Pakenham (historian) |title=The Scramble for Africa |date=1991 |publisher=Random House |isbn=0-349-10449-2}}
- {{cite book |last=Uys |first=I. S. |date=1992 |title=South African Military Who's Who, 1452–1992 |publisher=Fortress Publishers |isbn=9780958317337}}
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Category:South African Republic generals
Category:People from Uitenhage
Category:People of the First Boer War
Category:White South African people
Category:South African people of Portuguese descent
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