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Kruger traveled to England in 1883 to revise the Pretoria Convention of 1881, the agreement between the Boers and the English that ended the First Boer War.

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His former Pretoria residence is now the Kruger House Museum.

The Kruger National Park is named after him, as is the Krugerrand coin, which features his face, and the Oom Paul pipe, named after the style of pipe he smoked.

In 2004 he was voted 27th in the Top 100 Great South Africans ( see List of South Africans)

External links

• Brief biography on the Kruger National Park web page
• Longer biography at the Kruger House Museum web site

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