Great Trek
Britishnoun
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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
This movement of the Boers into the Transvaal was called the "Great Trek," trek being a Dutch word for a journey or migration of this sort.
From Stories That Words Tell Us by O'Neill, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Speakman)
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