Great Trek

British  

noun

1. history the migration of Boer farmers with their slaves and African servants from the Cape Colony to the north and east from about 1836 to 1845 to escape British authority

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Example Sentences

The great trek lies waiting, a symbol for the exploration to come.

From BBC

“The great trek started today and will last six days. This is a journey that the president is leading, a journey through the past to appreciate the present,” Museveni’s senior press secretary, Don Wanyama, said.

From The Guardian

The migrants who pass through this desert outpost seek invisibility even before they begin the great trek north.

From The Guardian

In the condition I was in, it felt like a great trek.

From Literature

I am concerned about the situation a generation forward, when Asian and Eastern European universities reach the level of our own and students will no longer be sufficiently dazzled by the prestige of an Ivy League education to make the great trek.

From Scientific American