An ox-wagon or bullock wagon is a four-wheeled vehicle pulled by oxen (draught cattle). It was a traditional form of transport, especially in Southern...
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needed] Aurochs Bullock cart (ox-cart) Bullocky (ox-driver, teamster) Ox (zodiac) Ox in Chinese mythology Ox-wagon (bullock wagon) Oxtail Ridge and furrow...
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A covered wagon, also called a prairie wagon, whitetop, or prairie schooner, is a horse-drawn or ox-drawn wagon with a canvas top used for transportation...
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Ossewabrandwag (redirect from Ox-Wagon Sentinels)
[ˈɔsəˌvɑːˌbrantvaχ], from Afrikaans: ossewa, lit. 'ox-wagon' and Afrikaans: brandwag, lit. 'guard, picket, sentinel, sentry' - Ox-wagon Sentinel) was a pro-Nazi Afrikaner...
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wagon, USA 1840s Ox-wagon hauling wool, New Zealand c. 1880 Twenty-mule team, Borax freight, USA 1880s Borax wagons on display c. 1935 Freight wagons...
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The Wagon Mound massacre was an attack on a US Postal Service ox-wagon carried out on May 7, 1850 by a band of Jicarilla Apache and Mouache Ute Indians...
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Bullock cart (redirect from Ox cart)
vehicles may have been ox carts. In Australia, bullock carts were referred to as bullock drays if they had two wheels, and bullock wagons, if they had four...
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Natal. To approach UmGungundlovu via the Italeni defile with ox wagons would force the wagons into an open column, instead of an enclosed laager as successfully...
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oneself inside a big laager consisting of 64 ox-wagons made out of decorative granite.: 15 The same number of wagons were used at the Battle of Blood River...
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Petrus Steyn (section Ox Wagon Wheel Monument)
Afrikaans Language. The Ox Wagon Wheel monument was erected in 1938, during the centenary celebrations of the Great Trek. Here, ox wagon tracks and footprints...
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transport driver named Johnny Coleman who, during a sand storm, abandoned his ox wagon on a small incline opposite the settlement. Once a small but very rich...
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riven (split lengthwise) into four or six sections. The radial members of a wagon wheel were made by carving a spoke (from a log) into their finished shape...
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when he worked as a storeman, prospector's assistant, journalist and ox-wagon transport-rider in the Bushveld region of the Transvaal (then the South...
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The unusual name of this little place comes from the days of the first ox wagon trek, when a stone outcrop imposed a sharp detour on travelers. The fishermen's...
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offices, and an Ox Wagon monument (Kakebeenwa) to commemorate the Ossewa Trek of 1838. The ox wagon monument has an impression of a wagon wheel track made...
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crippled by the attack). She died aged 62 and was buried in Rouxville. An ox-wagon in the historic 1938 Great Trek Centenary commemoration trek as well as...
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eight-ox plowing teams were once common on the heavy soils of southern England, as were very large ox teams used in 19th century South Africa (see ox-wagon)...
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between two ox wagons Argent, three bezants (i.e. a red shield displaying three gold coins between two diagonal gold lines between two ox-wagons). The crest...
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behind in Graskop (translated as "grassy hill") whilst looking for an ox wagon route to Delagoa Bay. Today Graskop mainly serves as a tourist town in...
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This was opposite the farm Maccauvlei.: 18 From 1881, coal was taken by ox-wagon to Kimberley, and by 1882 there was so much development around the mining...
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overran the nomads. The Guangwu Emperor (AD 25–57) introduced an ox-pulled war wagon several stories high with an observation tower, which was deployed...
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himself to an anti-British, pro-Nazi organisation called the Ossewabrandwag (Ox-wagon Sentinel), founded in 1938 in celebration of the centenary of the Great...
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efficient way was needed to transport coal to factories other than by ox wagon. The railway from Durban to Johannesburg reached this point on 4 September...
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management of the family business, which at that time had developed from an ox wagon manufacturing enterprise to that of a general dealer, selling household...
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end of a day's journey; Hall 3: Repairing the ox wagons; Hall 4: Building the laager (a camp with the wagons drawn into a circle for protections against...
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the wealth of the Transvaal through gold mining, the tree growth and the ox wagon the Transvaal. The background colours of the four quadrants were the colours...
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In each quarter was a symbol of the four provinces of South Africa. An ox wagon representing Transvaal Province, a woman with an anchor representing Cape...
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Oregon Trail (redirect from Wagon Train of 1843)
and spare wagon parts were often carried. Most carried steel shoes for horses, mules, or livestock. Tar was carried to help repair an ox's injured hoof...
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Cronjé at Magersfontein and riding towards Kimberley. De Wet's raid on the ox wagon convoy at Watervals Drift (Waterval Drift/Watervalsdrift), capturing 1600...
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