Boer voortrekkers who attempted to cross this desert in the late 19th century called it the "Thirstland"
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Ron_357  Nov 9, 2007 ... The Boers of Voortrekker & Trekboer descent are considered an .... The Cape Dutch attempted to retain nominal control over the ... The Trekboers have been called the "gypsy of the desert" .... First Trekboers cross the Orange River. ...... In the late nineteenth century, when most research on Afrikaans was...
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Boer - Revolvy  The Trek Boers of the 19th century were the lineal descendants of the Trek .... known as Slachters Nek, in 1815, called the most insane attempt ever made by a set ... of the South African Republic, was held in fullest force by the voortrekkers. ... without resistance in 1877, they fought two Boer Wars in the late 19th century to...
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jeopardy/1877_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR | Boer voortrekkers who attempted to cross this desert in the late 19th century called it the "Thirstland" | Kalahari. right: Matt. Wrong:.
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Ron_357: May 2007  May 3, 2007 ... The Boers (Afrikaans for farmers) were of Dutch descent. ... while the term Boer tends to refer to those who are of Trekboer & Voortrekker descent. ... These trekboers can justly be called the first white Africans. ... It was only in the later part of the nineteenth century that the Noria (bakkiespomp came into use).
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Boer - WikiVisually  Oct 17, 2016 ... The Trek Boers of the 19th century were the lineal descendants of the Trek Boers of the 18th century. .... South African Republic, was held in fullest force by the voortrekkers. ...... Modern Dutch began in the late 15th century when the first attempts ... The movement was first called Calvinism by Lutherans who...
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FRANK SANGA ABDUL: Causes of Great Trek and Its Impacts  May 1, 2015 ... The Great Trek was a movement of Dutch-speaking colonists up into the interior of ... In 1835 and 1841, 7000 Boer men, women and children, with further 7000 Boer ... The Boers who trekked away from the cape colony in the late 1830s were ... Large number of Dutch moved to the interior of South Africa for...
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The Devil's Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea | Excerpt ...  The only direction they could manage was through the gap they stumbled across as ... Cutting through this region, and lending its name to the terrible landscape, was the .... Thousands of travelers went into the desert, and piles of human bones ... A westerner named Francisco Salazar seems to have been the first to keep an...
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Orange Free State - Wikipedia  The Orange Free State was an independent Boer sovereign republic in southern Africa during ... The new republic incorporated both the Orange River Sovereignty and the ... its former name, along with the Cape Province, Natal, and the Transvaal. ... Europeans first visited the country north of the Orange River towards the...
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The Black Line in Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), 1830
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Battle of Blood River - Wikipedia  The Battle of Blood River is the name given for the battle fought between 470 Voortrekkers ("Pioneers"), led by Andries Pretorius, and an estimated 15,00021,000 Zulu attackers on the bank of the Ncome River on 16 December 1838, in what is today KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. ... Casualties amounted to 3,000 of king Dingane's soldiers dead, including two...
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Second Anglo-Boer War 1899 - 1902 | South African History Online  Aug 16, 2016 ... A British mule train stirring up the dust as it toils up a steep incline during Second Anglo-Boer War 1899 - 1902, South Africa 1899 - 1902.
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Term for the Boer migration in the 1830s & 1840s, it comes from an ...  Jun 29, 2016 ... Horripilation is the medical term for this skin condition # Quiz # Question ... Term for a formal agreement, it's also a Honda # Quiz # Question.
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Kiting at the end of the world | Action Asia - Best Adventures in Asia  He named the rugged land he found Van Diemen's Land, but in 1856 it was officially ... For those chasing wind and waves, Marrawah (teeming with 400 people) is ... Extinct on the mainland with the spread of the dingo, devils are limited to ... The bay was given its name in 1773 by Captain Tobias Furneaux, who saw the...
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Map of the Voortrekker's Republic. After arriving back on the ...  Map of the Great Trek (South Africa) during the 1830s and 1840s by Boers. Save ... The word "Blyde" means 'happy' or 'glad' in Dutch. ... Ox Wagons Stuck fast in the Crocodile River | Flickr - Photo Sharing! .... hendrik witbooi - Travel News Namibia .... The Great Trek (Afrikaans: Die Groot Trek) was an eastward and north-.
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Jeopary Questions page 1048 - REIGNING CATS & DOGS ...  EXPLORING AFRICA: The first European to round Africa's southern tip, ... Mason portrayed this German in both "The Desert Fox" & "The Desert Rats" ... late 1790s Friedrich Hornemann became the first modern European to cross this desert.
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Treaty of Vereeniging - Topics  The Treaty of Vereeniging (commonly referred to as Peace of Vereeniging ) was the ... signed on 31 May 1902, that ended the Second Boer War between the South ... The British made concessions which included the Cape rebels only being ... the town of Vereeniging in Transvaal, where the peace negotiations took place,...
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Second Boer War | HistoryNet  But the British government, facing criticism of its policies and actions in southern ... in South Africa in November 1899; they continued arriving throughout the war until more ... If more than one unit carne from a single colonial force, these could be ... The Australian horse soldiers already were working successfully against the...
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German South-West Africa - Wikipedia  German South-West Africa (German: Deutsch-Sdwestafrika, DSWA) was a colony of the ... Earlier, the colonial aim was to dispossess the indigenous peoples of their land, ... a western arm of the Kalahari Desert, where many of them died of thirst. ... Many German names, buildings, and businesses still exist in the country,...
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EXPLORATION | The Handbook of Texas Online| Texas State ...  Another and equally luckless rival of Corts brought Spanish explorers back to the ... Cabeza de Vaca was not an explorer in the traditional or scientific sense. ... The Coronado expedition penetrated Texas from the west in 1541, while the survivors of ... They started from Monclovaqv, crossed the Rio Grande at an unknown...
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Afrikaners - Wikipedia  Afrikaners are a Southern African ethnic group descended from predominantly Dutch settlers first arriving in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. They traditionally dominated South Africa's agriculture and politics prior to 1994. Afrikaans, South Africa's third most widely spoken home language, is the ..... During the Anglo-Boer War of 18991902, a number of Cape Afrikaners...
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Heritage and identity of Provinces | South African History Online  Jan 26, 2012 ... Map of the provinces of South Africa during apartheid. ... and the ZAR's name changed to Transvaal, which means 'across the Vaal River'.