what country was anton van leeuwenhoek from?
Dutch Republic Netherlands
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 The Voortrekkers faced competition for the area they were entering from Mzilikazi and his Ndebele ( or Matabele ) people , a recent offshoot from the Zulu Kingdom to the south @-@ east . On 16 October 1836 the 11 @-@ year @-@ old Kruger took part in the Battle of Vegkop , where Potgieter 's laager , a circle of wagons chained together , was unsuccessfully attacked by Mzilikazi and around 4 @,@ 000 – 6 @,@ 000 Matabele warriors . Kruger and the other small children assisted in tasks such as bullet @-@ casting while the women and larger boys helped the fighting men , of whom there were about 40 . Kruger could recall the battle in great detail and give a vivid account well into old age . 

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 The Count of Provence and his wife fled to the Austrian Netherlands in conjunction with the royal family 's failed Flight to Varennes in June 1791 . 

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 Anton was a scientist in Nazi Germany who , following a disagreement regarding the direction of its nuclear program , is recruited by the US and flees via France , Spain , and Portugal . He becomes a part of the Manhattan Project , witnesses the tests , and travels to Hiroshima recording the aftermath . Anton regrets the consequences of the atomic bombs , attends the Pugwash Conference , but maintains his belief that it was necessary to end the war and prevented more deaths . He marries Sophie and becomes a professor at Columbia University in New York . With Sophie , he retires to a small town outside of Toronto . 

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 These developments impelled the Krugers ' return to the highveld , where they took part in Potgieter 's campaign that compelled Mzilikazi to move his people north , across the Limpopo River , to what became Matabeleland . Kruger and his father thereupon settled at the foot of the Magaliesberg mountains in the Transvaal . Meanwhile , in Natal , Andries Pretorius defeated more than 10 @,@ 000 of Dingane 's Zulus at the Battle of Blood River on 16 December 1838 , a date subsequently marked by the Boers as Dingaansdag ( " Dingane 's Day " ) or the Day of the Vow . 

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 Sources disagree regarding much of Krugers ' life . J. B. Kristanto 's Katalog Film Indonesia lists him as having been born in Hong Kong , but does not give a year . However , a 1933 newspaper report gave Krugers ' age as 43 and his place of birth as Banda Neira , and a Georg Eduard Albert Krugers is known to be born there in 1890 . 
