Wagon Laager(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Sixty-four wagons were used during the battle of Blood River to form the laager.
Therefore the granite laager serves as symbolic protection for the Monument - by implication it also protects the Afrikaner nation and its culture against foreign onslaught.
At the foot of the Monument, inside the laager, stands a bronze sculpture of a Voortrekker woman and her two children.
laager n : (South African) a camp defended by a circular formation of wagons [syn: lager]
can be readily formed into a laager, a camp, by being drawn into a circle, with the oxen placed inside and so kept safe from the attacks of wild beasts.
[From Laager, n.] To form into, or camp in, a laager, or protected camp.
Two openings were left in the laager wall to act as gates, each one the width of a wagon: they could be quickly closed by man-handling wagons kept in readiness beside them whose axles had been carefully greased.
The wagon laager was not Potgieter's invention: it had been used during the Kafir wars on the eastern frontier of the Cape and as we have seen only a short time before had saved a group of trekkers on the Vaal.
The laager at Vegkop was in fact a strong fortress, but its garrison was grievously small, and now at this late stage two men who had no eye for glory slipped away to safety.
The wagons were placed in a circle and chained together with the pole of one thrust in between the wheels of the wagon in front.
Vol.65 No.2, 11 A laager was an encampment formed by ox-wagons lashed together and drawn end to end, thus making a circle or square for the protection of the people and animals inside.
laager mentality, an attitude of isolationism and intransigence born of fear or anger.
Laager ist eine Auftragsarbeit zum Europäischen Kulturmonat Linz 1998
Vier Scouts dirigieren eine mobile Wagenburg samt Soundsystem durch Linz: Peter Androsch, Sam Auinger, Didi Bruckmayr und Wolfgang Dorninger bestimmen den Kurs, die Lagerplätze und das Programm von Laager und präsentieren ihre Gäste.
Laager wird in seiner traditionellen nomadischen Siedlungsform zum idealen Forum der Auseinandersetzung mit wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Entwicklungen in Europa.
www.servus.at /fadi/laager.htm (284 words)
Laager Racing(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Below is a Laager Racing snowmobile getting a great, ski-lifting holeshot.
Laager Racing is dedicated to improving the performance of our products.
A recent test on a dyno should provide all the proof you need: This year's engine has 30% more horsepower than last year's model.
The term laager is an Afrikaans word used originally by the Boer Trekkers to circle their wagons around a campfire for companionship and safety at the end of the day's travel across the veldt.
Come and stay overnight at Gunbarrel Laager and experience the friendly atmosphere and wonderfully starlit night skies.
Mine management requires Gunbarrel Laager to book guests in 24 hours ahead of their proposed visit.
Laager and Limehouse - Home(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Laager and Limehouse is a weekly comic strip by the Firedrake (and a Random Jewelled Beetle from the Hoard)
We've been doing this for a year (as of tomorrow).
I've added a wardrobe page to the site with close-up images of t-shirts, and put the scripts onto the archive pages in text form to make it easier for people to find particular strips.
