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Browsing named entities in a specific section of Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing). Search the whole document.
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William McKinley (search for this): entry boer
Emilio C. Joubert (search for this): entry boer
1814 AD (search for this): entry boer
Boer,
A Dutch term meaning farmer.
given to the descendants of the Holland emigrants to the Cape of Good Hope in 1652.
They gradually extended civilization over a wide territory.
The British acquired the settlement in 1796 as a fruit of war. In 1803 it was restored to the Dutch, but in 1806 was again seized by the British.
In the Congress of Vienna (1814) Holland formally ceded it to Great Britain.
This settlement became known as Cape Colony.
A large majority of the Boers moved north in 1835-36, a number settling in the region which afterwards became known as the Orange Free State, and the remainder in the present colony of Natal.
The settlers in the latter region stayed there until Great Britain took possession of it in 1843, when they removed farther north, and organized the South African, or, as it has been generally called, the Transvaal, Republic.
In 1877 the South African Republic was annexed by the British government; in 1880 the Boers there rose in revolt: in 1881
1881 AD (search for this): entry boer
1843 AD (search for this): entry boer
1880 AD (search for this): entry boer
1877 AD (search for this): entry boer
1806 AD (search for this): entry boer
Boer,
A Dutch term meaning farmer.
given to the descendants of the Holland emigrants to the Cape of Good Hope in 1652.
They gradually extended civilization over a wide territory.
The British acquired the settlement in 1796 as a fruit of war. In 1803 it was restored to the Dutch, but in 1806 was again seized by the British.
In the Congress of Vienna (1814) Holland formally ceded it to Great Britain.
This settlement became known as Cape Colony.
A large majority of the Boers moved north in 1835-36, a number settling in the region which afterwards became known as the Orange Free State, and the remainder in the present colony of Natal.
The settlers in the latter region stayed there until Great Britain took possession of it in 1843, when they removed farther north, and organized the South African, or, as it has been generally called, the Transvaal, Republic.
In 1877 the South African Republic was annexed by the British government; in 1880 the Boers there rose in revolt: in 1881
1836 AD (search for this): entry boer
1835 AD (search for this): entry boer