Chapter 125

On August 1, 1862, entangled in the media, the South African war event finally reached an agreement between the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, the Dutch overseas ethnic group left there to make room for the United Kingdom, and the United Kingdom made room for the two. The place was transferred to South Australia and the transaction was carried out. At the same time, with the transmission of various versions of the news, Vicious Ron also knew that the reason why the United Kingdom agreed to the coordination of the Netherlands was that it was found in the Republic of Transvaal in South Africa. large gold mine.

Some experts in the Netherlands estimate that the reserves of the gold mines he transferred to the Netherlands are greater than the tonnage of gold currently stored in the Netherlands.

With the release of this news, people from all over Europe began to flock to South Africa, and the British cabinet held a special press conference for this reason, requiring miners to conduct in accordance with British law, and also For this deal between the UK and the Netherlands, everything is in a reasonable deal.

In the words of William IV of the Netherlands; if you cooperate, you will gain, and if you fight, you will lose. In short, getting Dutch is a millennial journey away from South Africa.

With the departure of the Dutch, there are currently only indigenous peoples, British people in South Africa, and other people from the German Confederacy in Europe such as France and Prussia, but these people add up to less than 100,000 people, which has little effect on British rule. Significant influence of Dutch descent before.

But I don't know why, these people are still supporting the Zulu Kingdom. It was thought that everything was over, but I didn't expect that the 100,000 army of Karma was still blocked there.

So the British government took the courage to set up an army of 100,000 people. It took less than half a month for itself to take the Zulu Kingdom, but the United Kingdom also caused more than 20,000 deaths.

Taken together, more than 70,000 British died in South Africa, which is the highest death rate in the short-term war in just a few months since the founding of the United Kingdom.

The death of these 70,000 British troops had a very far-reaching impact on the United Kingdom, because the British Army even caused the domestic defense to be understrength.

The impact of this incident is very significant, because it has opened up the image of the hegemony that Britain has been giving people recently. It is the incarnation of victory. The situation in Europe.

This can be seen from the fact that in this African occupation of colonies, countries no longer care about North and South Africa being the British sphere of influence.

African colonization continues.

After the Dutch Colonel Braga completely occupied the Congo, he hurriedly sent a report to the homeland to complete the task. Immediately, he was commended by William IV, and was directly promoted to the rank of major general, and announced the formation of a Congolese division, in addition to three thousand Dutch soldiers. , will be drawn from the East Indian indigenous army and 7,000 men will be drawn to complement this army in Braga.

At a diplomatic conference on August 1, the Dutch government stated that the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs had issued a notice to all countries in the world that have embassies in the Netherlands, announcing that the Netherlands has complete sovereignty over both sides of the Congo River Basin and Madagascar. In mid-July, under the leadership of the Dutch Deputy Chief of General Staff Leon Booker, under the double strike of land and sea, the largest island in Africa and the Indian Ocean finally fell into the hands of the Netherlands. sovereign dominance.

With the Netherlands taking the lead, other countries have followed suit. Inform countries about their spheres of influence.

On August 1, 1862, after a month, Prussia dispatched 50,000 Prussian troops, and soon completely mastered Southwest Africa (namely Namisia), but unexpectedly, Frederick Karl. The prince commanded the army to advance eastward, crossed the traditional border of Namisia, and sent an army to Bechuana in northern South Africa (that is, World Botswana), and quickly occupied the northwestern town of Bechuana and the northern central city of Ma. Ong. Eventually they reached Kasane and Katima Mulilo, where they encountered the Dutch army, so they stopped to continue northward, so the Prussian army pushed eastward until it reached the western town of Ba, southern Rhodesia. Ravana just stopped.

Because there he met the British.

Just after the departure of the Dutch people of the Transvaal Republic and the Orange Free State, the British quickly occupied the two countries, so they also have ambitions to annex Bechuana in the north. They are preparing to go north recently, but they did not expect that Prussia The speed was so fast, so Jobun was dissatisfied, so he also marched north. The two armies finally met in the south of Hangji outside Bechuana, and continued to the east. The confrontation reached Hedawu Lake and the British occupation. Francistown.

The British also occupied the southern towns of Gwanda and Masvingo in Southern Rhodesia.

With the emergence of the British army, Prince Frederick Karl of Prussia finally stopped his progress and confronted Joben and the British army of 100,000 led by the British Governor of South Africa on the east and west sides of the Karahadi Desert. No one dared to take the initiative to open the battle. After all, Jobon understood that Britain had more than one enemy, and Prince Karl of Prussia had many targets and was unwilling to waste his troops. In the end, the two armies retreated and formed a pattern. .

It is precisely because of this ambiguity that it is easier for the two armies to get into mishaps in the later battle in southern Africa.

Seeing that Karl was not far away from him, Joben marched north to defend the remaining French and Germans in Pretoria. Just as he was about to destroy the opponent, Prince Karl of Prussia in the west led the charge again. The army advanced eastward to Chapang, threatening South Africa.

This annoyed Jobon.

So I could only report everything here to London. Naturally, London was dissatisfied with the new future of Prussia, so the diplomatic level began to criticize Berlin harshly, asking William I and Bismarck in Berlin to restrain Prince Carl in southern Africa, Do not take actions that endanger the relationship between the two countries.

An old power and a new power collided in southern Africa.

However, Prussia did not restrict Prince Frederick Karl~www.mtlnovel.com~ On the contrary, Prime Minister Bismarck announced in Berlin that Prussia has achieved the dominance of Cameron, as well as control of Namisia and Somalia, Ask countries not to touch Prussian control there.

At the same time, he also announced that Bechuana was also controlled by Prussia and demanded British recognition.

However, London is obviously opposed, because just after Berlin announced that Bechuana belonged to him, the British foreign minister Russell condemned the act of forcibly occupying Prussia as shameful, because Bechuana was a vassal recognized by the United Kingdom as early as more than ten years ago. Everything is known to all countries.

However, Prussia did not agree with the British point of view, believing that fruits and vegetables were not equivalent to a category of colonies and territories. The United Kingdom was just a way of interacting with the indigenous royal family at that time, and did not involve the issue of territorial ownership, so Prussia had the right to carry out claim the regime.

The disputes between the two countries are not all of the disputes in southern Africa.

Because they quickly welcomed 2 contenders into the game.

These two are the consistent presence of Portugal and the Netherlands in South Africa.