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Great Trek

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Great Trek
n
(Historical Terms)
the South African History the migration of Boer farmers from the Cape Colony to the north and east from about 1836 to 1845 to escape British authority


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The two men travel through the Negev desert, into Egypt -- site of the Israelites' enslavement -- and back toward Israel through the Sinai, tracing the Israelites' great trek through the desert to the Promised Land.
As Crais demonstrates, however, used sensitively, meticulously, and even humbly, postmodern techniques can provide important, original insights and reinterpretations of such well-treated texts as "Kaffir wars," the Great Trek, or the Xhosa cattle-killing of the 1850s.
This fall, more than 15 million college freshmen will make the great trek toward membership in the Class of 2009(1).
 
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