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But no one expected the war to go that way, and the Boers were confident that they would be able to gain independence from the British, and the British thought that they would be able to easily deal with the Boers.

What the British did not expect was that the war would provoke opposition from almost all of Europe.

In the Netherlands and Belgium, a great wave of monks was launched against the British invasion of the Boer countries, and in these two countries, out of national affection for the Dutch people in South Africa, numerous civil society groups were formed, donations were collected, articles were published, foundations were established, and wartime mobile hospitals and medical equipment were donated to the Transvaal.

The movement of German people in solidarity with the Transvaal has also increased one after another, with 950,000 people signing in solidarity with the Transvaal Republic. The U.S. government remained neutral, but the descendants of Dutch immigrants in the U.S. supported the Boers.

At this time, the British realized that they had offended too many countries.

Hundreds of years of continental balancing policy have led to their always being at odds with the most powerful countries on the continent, and France and Russia have suffered this kind of pain in history, and Germany is only now beginning to feel the British noose on its head, and in the process of fighting for colonies, it has offended France and other countries.

The Fashoda incident that broke out last year made the French have a very bad impression of the British. The suppression of Russia for so many years has made the Russians have a very bad view of Britain.

These bad perceptions created a general anti-British sentiment from below, and thousands of volunteers from the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, the United States, Russia, Ireland, Italy, and Scandinavia crossed the ocean to the Transvaal, ready to fight alongside the Boers.

The strength of these volunteers was limited, as was the strength of Belgium and the Netherlands, but it was impossible for Britain not to ignore the attitude of some great powers.

The one who cares most is precisely Germany, although Germany's navy is not yet in the climate, and the naval plan launched last year has not yet taken shape, but the two countries are too close after all, Germany is using his pocket navy to surprise Britain, and Britain can't stand it.

So before the war, Britain sent the mining magnate Rhodes to Berlin and reached a secret deal with the Kaiser. In negotiations with the German Foreign Secretary, Rhodes informed Germany of Britain's determination to annex the Republic of Boer and build a Trans-African Railway from Cape Town to Cairo. As a condition of the deal, Britain supported Germany's plans to build a railway from Berlin to Baghdad and German expansion in the Middle East and Asia Minor.

Therefore, after the start of the Boer War, although the sentiment of the people sympathizing with the Boers was high, the German government maintained a neutral attitude.

Shortly after the start of the battle, 4,000 British troops under the command of Lieutenant General George White launched a counter-offensive against the Boer army, and encountered the main Boer army at Nicholson Gorge, where the British were quickly defeated with 1,272 men and surrounded by the Boers.

In order to relieve the encircled British army, the British sent more troops, and Lieutenant General Mayhuin commanded more than 9,000 men of the 1st Royal Infantry Division to set out from the Cape Colony, only to be lured into the ambush site by the Boers, and the British army was ambushed, suffering 968 casualties and retreating.

On the other hand, the British army attacked Orange's allies, using old tactics, slaughtered by Boer machine guns in a neat line, and 696 people were captured and missing.

The British continued to rescue the encircled troops, and a fierce battle broke out between the two sides at Colonso, as a result of which the British lost 1,139 men, 250 missing, and 10 artillery pieces lost. The Boer army suffered only 8 killed and 30 wounded.

Within a week, the British army was completely defeated on all fronts, losing more than 2,800 men, and it was called "a dark week" in the history of the British army. ”

As the war progressed, especially the British march did not go well, Germany was immediately dissatisfied with the benefits it received from the British, and the Kaiser was never a man of good faith. The key is that he saw that the Boers had the possibility of victory, and that the British Army was really a shame for the British Empire, and if he could not help the Boers in the war, how could he make the victorious Boer countries obey the orders of Germany.

So the British on the battlefield in South Africa found that there were more and more officers in the Boer army who looked like regular soldiers instead of the Boer People's Corps, and more and more Krupp cannons were also found.

Britain protested to Germany for this, demanding that Germany cut off the supply of weapons to the Boers.

The Germans demanded Samoa.

In 1889, German, British, and American warships faced off in Samoan ports for samoa. Hero? The three U.S. countries have reached a tentative agreement to make the archipelago jointly administered by the three countries?

The German government was unhappy with this state of affairs, because local commerce was controlled by German merchant houses, and Germany believed that it had the right to monopolize the archipelago, at least part of it, and build a military base for the German Navy?

Previously, Germany was neither an opponent of the British Navy, nor was it comparable to the American Navy, but now, after the war with the Ming Dynasty, the United States has not recovered its vitality, and even the Spanish-American War that broke out in history has not broken out, and Britain is involved in the Boer War.

Germany then offered that Britain recognize German possession of Samoa as a price for Germany to restrain its own arms dealers.

British colonial secretary Neville Chamberlain made it clear that Germany was "openly engaged in blackmail"?

However, the United States had helped share the pressure on Germany, but now the United States has lost its influence in the Pacific and has been replaced by China, which has occupied Hawaii.

Britain tried to use China, which had colonies in the Pacific, against Germany.

The Chinese Foreign Affairs Department saw at first glance that this was an opportunity to improve relations with Great Britain or to strengthen relations with Germany.

The Department of Foreign Affairs has always been obsessed with the alliance with Germany, which is the diplomatic tradition of the mainland countries, and it is a diplomatic tradition of the mainland countries to make friends from afar and attack at close range, and no matter how you look at it, Germany, which has a common potential enemy with China, is the best alliance object for China.

The foreign affairs department also felt a crisis about Britain and Japan's entry into the country, the expansion of the Japanese navy has put China under considerable pressure, although the corresponding expansion of the navy, but the fiscal deficit is serious, and the further entry of Britain's relations with Japan will make China's naval advantage over Japan disappear.

Therefore, it is necessary for China to respond to the British suggestion, after Britain and the Ming discussed the views of the South Pacific region, the Ming immediately said that the Ming government is highly concerned about any country entering this area, and announced that it would send a fleet into this area to patrol between Galeries Lafayette Island (New Caledonia) in the west of Samoa and Emperor Island (Tahiti) in the east of Samoa, to deter Germany.

Germany immediately launched a diplomatic campaign against the Ming Dynasty, asking the Ming to guarantee their previous support for their possession of Samoa, while Britain hoped to unite with the Ming to maintain the status quo in the South Pacific, and the United States also issued a statement opposing the change of the status quo in Samoa.

The Chinese government is negotiating with both sides, and it's up to them to see who offers the highest price.