Research topic: Great Trek

Related pictures

Click to see an enlarged picture
Click to see an enlarged picture
Click to see an enlarged picture
Rate these pictures

Great Trek

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Great Trek , the journey by Afrikaner farmers ( Boers ) who left the Cape Colony to escape British domination and eventually founded Natal, Transvaal, and the Orange Free State. Trek is an Afrikaans term, originally meaning a journey by ox wagon. In this most famous trek, 12,000 Boers left the Cape between 1835 and 1843. The Voortrekkers (as these Boers are known) migrated beyond the Orange River. After defeating resident Africans, most remained in the highveld of the interior, forming isolated communities and small states. Bibliography: See E. Walker, The Great Trek (5th ed. 1965). ... Read more
Great Trek
see Trek, Great . Read more
Great Trek
...nationhood, enabled the settlers to establish temporary military supremacy over the Xhosa , to penetrate into Natal and the Highveld, and to expand white settlement north to the Limpopo River. Andries Pretorius . Great Trek Great Trek Great Trek Read more

Facts and information from other sites



Related research topics

Online videos

Radio Interview Post Trek - Great Wall of China

For Students and teachers!

HighBeam Encyclopedia provides students and teachers facts, information, and biographies from verified, citable sources, including:

HighBeam Encyclopedia provides students and teachers facts, information, and biographies from verified, citable sources, including: