Boers In South Africa

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Tensions in South Africa between the British and the Boers developed soon after the two populations came together in the region, and this tension would continue until the Boer War at the end of the nineteenth century. One of the more memorable events that took place over this century-long history of conflict was the Great Trek, a migration of Boers from the British territory to another territory in an effort to create their own land and control their own destiny.

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"Tensions in South Africa between the British and the Boers developed soon after the two populations came together in the region, and this tension would continue until the Boer War at the end of the nineteenth century. One of the more memorable events that took place over this century-long history of conflict was the Great Trek, a migration of Boers from the British territory to another territory in an effort to create their own land and control their own destiny. This trek would have consequences both at the time and in later history leading up to the Boer War.

Throughout the 19th century, Great Britain expanded its possessions in southern Africa, and over this period ill feeling mounted between the Dutch descended population, called Afrikaners, or Boers, and British settlers, leading to the Afrikaner migration called the Great Trek (1835 1843) and the ..."

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