100% correct.
Our Anglo boer wars where at a similar time as your civil war... maybe 20-30 years difference
But yup you quiet correct.
Our settlers/frontiersmen and wagon trains exploring where mostly dominated by voortrekkers (boers- basically farmers that where quiet proficient woodsmen,farmers and fighters and masters of gorilla warfare) what are now afrikaaners, but came originally from Dutch settlers , later French and Italian also added to this group of people.. afrikaans is almost similar to Dutch as a language. The how of how I find myself in SA is my great grand father came over from France to join the boers effort in fighting against Colonial Britain in our second boer war (1899- 1902) so I am French decent, I suppose I could claim I am boer, however my 1st language is not afrikaans, some members of our family are Afrikaans 1st language speakers though.
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