The Great Trek or Voortrek is the central event in the history of South Africa, beginning in the mid-thirties of the 19th century and going out in the early forties. This great northward migration of the Afrikaner people, involved thousands of cattle and sheep farmers who fled British authority. Leaving the frontier regions of the Cape Colony, and founded the independent republics of Natal, the Orange Free State and the Transvaal.

The struggle of the Afrikaner or Boer people since the 17th century when they arrived in South Africa from Europe was like that of Americans, a struggle for freedom from foreign authority. The Boers, or farmers, were predominantly Dutch, and spoke the Dutch language, but over the centuries their language changed to become a uniquely South African accent of the Indo-European language family.

It was the Napoleonic wars that brought the British to South Africa as rulers and settlers. In the 1830's and 1840's an estimated......

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Title: The Great Trek, The Orange Free State And The Transvaal
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