Great Trek

British

noun

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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This movement has become known as the Great Trek.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012

They had celebrated the centenary of the Great Trek hysterically for a whole year, touring the backveld from town to town in ox wagons.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Great Trek thus lost its most courageous and noble-minded leader.

From A Century of Wrong by Reitz, F. W.

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