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Great Trek: see Trek, Great Trek, Great (trĕk), the journey by Afrikaner farmers ( Boers ) who left the Cape Colony to escape British domination and eventually ..... Click the link for more information. . Great TrekEmigration of some 12,000–14,000 Boers (see Afrikaners) from Cape Colony (South Africa) between 1835 and the early 1840s, in rebellion against British policies and in search of fresh pasturelands. The trek, regarded by Afrikaners as the origin of their nationhood, enabled the settlers to establish temporary military supremacy over the Xhosa, to penetrate into Natal and the Highveld, and to expand white settlement north to the Limpopo River. See also Andries Pretorius. |
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| The two men travel through the Negev desert, into Egypt -- site of the Israelites' enslavement -- and back toward Israel through the Sinai, tracing the Israelites' great trek through the desert to the Promised Land. As Crais demonstrates, however, used sensitively, meticulously, and even humbly, postmodern techniques can provide important, original insights and reinterpretations of such well-treated texts as "Kaffir wars," the Great Trek, or the Xhosa cattle-killing of the 1850s. This fall, more than 15 million college freshmen will make the great trek toward membership in the Class of 2009(1). |
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