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Boers: descendants of early Dutch settlers

during Napoleonic wars, British seized their lands and later encouraged more Brits to move to this area and renamed it cape colony-->boers moved north "the great trek" to region between Orange and Vaal rivers and formed two republics-->boers frequently battled Zulu-->Zulu defeated by Brits-->Cecil Rhodes started diamond and gold companies operating in South Africa and became rich-->Rhodes, who was made prime minister of the cape colony, planned to overthrow the south African republic of Boers without British approval. by then it was too late to avoid a war-->Boer war 1899-1902

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Darrion Blick

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