Great Trek, Voortrekker Wagon Train

Boers of the Cape on the Trek. The Great Trek was an eastward migration of Dutch-speaking settlers who travelled by wagon trains from the Cape Colony into the interior of modern South Africa from 1836 onwards, seeking to live beyond the Cape's British colonial administration. The Great Trek resulted from the culmination of tensions between rural descendants of the Cape's original European settlers, known collectively as Boers, and the British Empire. Boers who participated in the Great Trek identified themselves as voortrekkers (pioneers, pathfinders, fore-trekkers). Image taken from page 456: Illustrated Battles of the Nineteenth Century by Archibald Forbes, War Correspondent of the Daily News, 1895

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