Great Trek
Britishnoun
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This movement has become known as the Great Trek.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012
Last week in Pretoria, South Africa, the 100th Anniversary of the Great Trek was celebrated in a wild clash of nostalgic happiness and partisan bitterness.
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In the 1830s the Afrikaners decided to escape English rule by setting forth on their Great Trek, which over the years has acquired the epic aura of a Long March or a Valley Forge.
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They had celebrated the centenary of the Great Trek hysterically for a whole year, touring the backveld from town to town in ox wagons.
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This trek is symbolic of the "Great Trek" in which their ancestors died.
From Adventures in Swaziland The Story of a South African Boer by O'Neil, Owen Rowe
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