The Boers were compelled to act due to the "unbearable lack of security" along the Cape's eastern border, which posed a significant threat to their survival.[417] They decided to leave the Cape colony. The Great Trek, as the Boers’ migration movement would later become known, was a peaceful revolution that allowed the Boers to liberate themselves from British rule without taking up arms against a much larger and stronger power. The Great Trek did, however, not occur out of the blue. The idea of leaving the Cape and settling elsewhere began with a small group of Boers, and it required
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