Oversættelse: The Great Trek og Boernes historie

The most stubborn Dutchmen – the ones called “Voortrekkers” broke with it and started The Great Trek towards North in 1836 so they could live without intervention from the Engl-969+2ishmen. This is the heroically period in the Boer history where they captured colossal territories from a numerical superior African enemy. The Boers had the decisive technical advantages and felt that the Lord was with them controlling their destiny. When the enemy was threatening they placed their wagons in a ring with hawthorns sticking into the wheels. A ring like that – so-called “laager” – was a fortress which it didn’t succeed the natives to defeat. The Englishmen didn’t follow in first turn, and during 1852-1853 Oranje and Transvaal approved as independent republics. The result by the capture was that the natives had to serve the white people and that the old tribal society disintegrated. in 1870 and 1880 there were discovered diamonds and gold in the Boer country, and the situation was therefore completely changed