aug 3, 1881 - Britain signed a peace treaty with the Boers giving them self-government in Transvaal, which ended the First Boer war.

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Unwilling to get bogged down in a distant war, the British government ordered a truce. The British agreed to complete Boer self-government in the Transvaal under British suzerainty. The Boers accepted the Queen's rule for the British to control over external relations.