Great Trek
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great-trek-168-1455027
title:
Great Trek
text:
The Great Trek was a northward migration of Dutch-speaking settlers who travelled by wagon trains from the Cape Colony into the interior of modern South Africa from 1836 onwards, seeking to live beyond the Cape's British colonial administration. The Great Trek resulted from the culmination of tensions between rural descendants of the Cape's original European settlers, known collectively as Boers, and the British Empire. It was also reflective of an increasingly common trend among individual Boer
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
1836–1852 Boer migrations away from the British Cape Colony
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Trek
date created:
2003-04-02T21:59:02Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T17:31:30Z
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