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See also: Free See also: State, was the son of See also: Sir Christoffel Brand, See also: speaker of the See also: House of See also: Assembly of the Cape Colony
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He was See also: born at Cape See also: Town on the 6th of See also: December 1823, and was educated at the See also: South See also: African See also: College in that city
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Continuing his studies at See also: Leiden, he took the degree of D.C.L. in 1845
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He was called to the See also: English See also: bar from the Inner See also: Temple in 1849, and practised as an advocate in the supreme See also: court of the Cape of See also: Good Hope from that See also: year until 1863
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In 1858 he was appointed professor of See also: law in the South African College
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He was elected president of the Orange Free State in 1863, and subsequently re-elected for five years in 1869, 1874, 1879 and 1884
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In 1864 he resisted the pressure of the Basuto on the Free State boundary, and after vainly endeavouring to induce Moshesh, the Basuto chief, to keep his See also: people within hounds, he took up arms against them in 1865
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This first war ended in the treaty of Thaba Bosigo, signed on the 3rd of See also: April 1866; and a second war, caused by the treachery of the Basuto, ended in the treaty of See also: Aliwal See also: North, concluded on the 12th of See also: February 1869
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In 1871 Brand was solicited by a large party to become president of the See also: Transvaal, and thus unite the two Dutch republics of South See also: Africa; but as the project was hostile to See also: Great Britain he declined to do so, and maintained his See also: constant policy of friendship towards See also: England, where his merits were recognized in 1882 by the honour of the G.C.M.G
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He died on the 14th of See also: July 1888
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