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Part 3.11

Southern Africa is one of the most glaring geo-political effects of the Napoleonic Upheaval. Originally part of the Dutch East India Company, the Netherlands were annexed by France, who claimed the Cape, Britain came and occupied it, and the Dutch inhabitants ran. In one of the Pre-Explorers' Wars in Africa, the French tried to claim all the Dutchmen who had lived in Cape were still citizens of France, therefor tried to take over the Boer. The disparate Boer states, with the aid of the British, united together against the French. That is not even to mention the other great upheaval caused by Shaka of the Zulu Kingdom, causing a great migration of Southern Africans into neighboring states.

Now the French East Cape Colony and their ally in the Zulu were surrounded and cut off from the rest the Franco-sphere. In September of 1914, they were invaded from Mozambique and West Cape, while the Boers made small raids but didn’t commit to anything large. The army from West Cape quickly went and put the East Cape Capital of Bonaparte under siege, but the army from Mozambique encountered some trouble.

The French Army protecting the border with Mozambique suffered many losses fighting off the Portuguese assault, enough so that they were eventually forced to retreat to the land of their allies of the Zulu. The Portuguese came rushing after, still disorganized from the previous battle, just to get jumped by the Zulu, long getting supplies and weapons from France, modernizing their state and army. Now, the Portuguese were to witness first hand the very maneuver that saw the Zulu’s rise, the Buffalo Horns, but on a grander scale. A few Portuguese soldiers barely survived the attack, captured or fleeing further into the interior of Africa, with the Zulu marching on back north, giving back to the French Swazia (although everyone knows that the Zulu army is the true authority in Swazia right now), and taking Portugal's capital in Mozambique, Marks, by Christmas

Didn’t help the city of Bonaparte though...

also, another campaign I wanted to add here, or at least somewhere, was the late 1914 British expedition into Russian Alaska. Like 500 British soldiers went in, got beaten up by local militias, what remained of the 500 retreated.

Description
Part 3.11

Southern Africa is one of the most glaring geo-political effects of the Napoleonic Upheaval. Originally part of the Dutch East India Company, the Netherlands were annexed by France, who claimed the Cape, Britain came and occupied it, and the Dutch inhabitants ran. In one of the Pre-Explorers' Wars in Africa, the French tried to claim all the Dutchmen who had lived in Cape were still citizens of France, therefor tried to take over the Boer. The disparate Boer states, with the aid of the British, united together against the French. That is not even to mention the other great upheaval caused by Shaka of the Zulu Kingdom, causing a great migration of Southern Africans into neighboring states.

Now the French East Cape Colony and their ally in the Zulu were surrounded and cut off from the rest the Franco-sphere. In September of 1914, they were invaded from Mozambique and West Cape, while the Boers made small raids but didn’t commit to anything large. The army from West Cape quickly went and put the East Cape Capital of Bonaparte under siege, but the army from Mozambique encountered some trouble.

The French Army protecting the border with Mozambique suffered many losses fighting off the Portuguese assault, enough so that they were eventually forced to retreat to the land of their allies of the Zulu. The Portuguese came rushing after, still disorganized from the previous battle, just to get jumped by the Zulu, long getting supplies and weapons from France, modernizing their state and army. Now, the Portuguese were to witness first hand the very maneuver that saw the Zulu’s rise, the Buffalo Horns, but on a grander scale. A few Portuguese soldiers barely survived the attack, captured or fleeing further into the interior of Africa, with the Zulu marching on back north, giving back to the French Swazia (although everyone knows that the Zulu army is the true authority in Swazia right now), and taking Portugal's capital in Mozambique, Marks, by Christmas

Didn’t help the city of Bonaparte though...

also, another campaign I wanted to add here, or at least somewhere, was the late 1914 British expedition into Russian Alaska. Like 500 British soldiers went in, got beaten up by local militias, what remained of the 500 retreated.