Boers (/bʊərz/ BOORZ; Afrikaans: Boere ([ˈbuːrə]) are the descendants of the proto Afrikaans-speaking Free Burghers of the eastern Cape frontier in Southern...
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legitimate way of depriving the Boer guerrillas of supplies and safe havens. The Boers saw them as a British attempt to coerce the Boers into surrender, with the...
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Trekboers, Boers, and Voortrekkers – settled mainly in the middle, northern, north-eastern and eastern parts of present-day South Africa. Two of the Boer republics...
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Look up boer, Boer, or bó'èr in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Boer or Boers or variation, may refer to: Boers, Dutch settlers of South Africa, who became...
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Kingdom and Boers of the Transvaal (as the South African Republic was known while under British administration). The war resulted in a Boer victory and...
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Isayah Boers (born 19 June 1999) is a Dutch sprinter, who specializes in the 400 metres. Boers won the bronze medal at the 2022 World Athletics Indoor...
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South African Republic (redirect from Boer Republic of Transvaal)
of the Boers and natives and thereby reign in what the British saw as the anarchy in the Transvaal. Additionally, the sea outlet that the Boers acquired...
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informant. Subsequently, Boers and other members were arrested over the spring and summer of 1941. After a mass trial, Boers was executed at Sachsenhausen...
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Orange Free State (section Boer immigration)
upon the Great Boers living north of the Vaal. In 1846 Major Warden occupied Winburg for a short time, and the relations between the Boers and the British...
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troops. A book about the war (J. Lehmann's The First Boer War, 1972) offered this comment about the Boers' rifle: "Employing chiefly the very fine breech-loading...
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