A detail of a relief sculpture by Peter Kirchhoff depicting the Great Trek of the 1830s, when Boers in Southern Africa migrated northwards away from British-controlled territory in order ot establish new independent settlements of their own.
Voortrekker Monument, Pretoria, South Africa.
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