Louis Trichardt
Louis Trichardt (1783 - 1838) was a Explorateur Boer of the South Africa.
From ascent Dutch E, Louis Trichardt descended from Carolus Gustav Tregard immigrant in 1742 to South Africa. Meanwhile, family name had evolved/moved in Trigardt then Trichardt.
In 1835, Louis Trichardt inaugurated the Grand Trek towards the interior of the grounds while being the first to leave the Colonie of the Cape to the head of a community of pioneers, the Voortrekkers.
It remained in the mountainous region of Soutpansberg in the north of the Transvaal and tied friendly contacts with certain chiefs of indigenous tribes, including one more particularly named Makhado which offered grounds to him to build a community.
The ideal of Trichardt to fix itself at this place failed because of the malaria and a year later, it brought back its community of Voortrekkers towards bay of Delagoa (today bay of Maputo) on the Mozambican coast.
The voyage was very epic through the mountains the top veld and lasted more than 8 months before Louis trichardt and they his do not reach Lourenço-Marks.
Trichardt, his wife and the majority of her companions nevertheless were embanked by the malaria. He dies the August 10th 1838. There remained nothing any more but one score of survivors who were brought back to Native Port (future Durban) in boat.
The town of Louis-Trichardt was thus baptized in its honor with the site where Makhado had conceded grounds to him to install its farm.
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