Mediterranean Hegemony Road

In line with the principle of blocking the British, the Germans and French expressed their willingness to support the Boers. As the Dutch, the homeland of the Boers, they even formed a volunteer army at home and prepared to go to South Africa to participate in the war.

These actions of European countries have brought the confidence of defeating the British invasion to the Transvaal Republic, but also brought disaster!

The Boers decided that, instead of compromising with the British, they began to prepare for the war, preparing to use force to expel the British invaders.

The Boers may lack other things, but they are not lacking in gold. They sensed the danger and frantically purchased weapons from European countries and trained soldiers.

The war was about to break out, and Britain could no longer tolerate it. With the efforts of the capitalists, the quarrelsome Congress finally passed a resolution to launch a full-scale war against the Boers.

At the end of 1895, the British army began to build up to the two Boer republics (Transvaal and Orange).

At the beginning of the war, the British army consisted of about 30,000 people. It used a recruitment system to supplement its troops. The weapons were outdated, the training was poor, and the discipline was lax.

Obviously, the British underestimated the strength of the Boers, and sent a group of rabble to the battlefield directly, and suffered a big loss in the early days of the war.

The ending has nothing to do with Ferdinand. The actions of the British South Africa have aroused the dissatisfaction of European countries, especially the Germans!

Although they did not support the Boers, they sold weapons and equipment and helped train soldiers.

The sudden outbreak of the Anglo-Boers War has successfully diverted the attention of the British. The conflict between Britain and Germany, Britain and France intensified, and the plan of the Marquis of Salisbury came to an end!

Ferdinand's goal has been reached, but he knows that South Africa is a quagmire, and the Boers are not so easy to mess with!

Now there are Germans and French as wet nurses for them, and life is much better than during the "Anglo-Boer" war in history.

Historically, the Anglo-Boers War has been fought for three years. At this time, there are a large number of nurses, and the preparations of the British are not as complete as in history. Short it!

Historically, the Germans abandoned the Boers as a result of the Anglo-German compromise on the partition of the South African colony.

The British wooed the Portuguese and cut off the land supply line from the Portuguese colonies. The Royal Navy took advantage of the Portuguese naval port in Mozambique to seal the Gulf of Dragoa and cut off the only port for the Boers to go to sea. Opportunities for supplies from the outside world.

Under a series of unfavorable factors, the Boers could only fight alone, persisting for three years, and finally failed.

None of this has happened yet. When the Anglo-Boers War broke out, the Germans, French, Dutch, etc., ships from European countries continued to enter and exit Dragoa Bay.

Ships of strategic materials were sold to the Boers. The British government is powerless to do anything about it. Obviously, European countries do not want the British to get South Africa easily!

If the contradiction between Germany and France is not too great, it is time for the two countries to join hands to intervene. Even so, the two countries have reached a tacit understanding that "the British cannot easily obtain South Africa"!

In the era of the gold standard, whoever has gold in his hands will dominate the world finance, and South Africa is precisely the most critical part of it!

Directly working with the Empire of Never Setting Sun, and before reaching that level, there is no pressure for everyone to stumble a little.

In January 1895, the German consul publicly expressed his support for the Transvaal Republic to take tough measures against the British.

After the failure of the invasion of the British African colonial army, William II personally sent a congratulatory message to President Transvaal Kruger, congratulating them: relying solely on his own strength, smashed a bandit invasion!

The French gazette also published the French government's attitude towards the Boers: the French Republic is willing to support the Transvaal Republic and oppose the British colonial rule.

The editor-in-chief of Le Figaro even put the Boers' resistance to the British invasion together with the American independence movement, calling on the French people to donate to the Boers and support the Boers to continue their efforts for national independence!

The Dutch Telegraph, in addition to calling on the Dutch people to donate, also directly solicited volunteers from all over the world, preparing to use practical actions to resist the British riots.

If only from the point of view of public opinion, the British are angry this time. From Western Europe to Eastern Europe, the media of various countries are slamming the British, calling on the world to unite to organize the British atrocities in South Africa!

In essence, what should I do? At most, it is to fool a few hot-blooded young people and go to the South African battlefield to fight with the British!

Or sell all kinds of supplies to the Boers and make a lot of gold. It is estimated that except for the Dutch who are really angry, other countries are for the benefit of the British.

Not only that, but the pressure of public opinion is still useful. At least during the Anglo-Boer War, the British's trade exports to Europe dropped by ten percent; the trade exports to the Netherlands dropped to a history of more than ten years. The lowest point, less than one-third of the heyday.

Ferdinand knew that this might be the core factor behind the collective opposition to Britain across Europe!

The United Kingdom has suffered a lot, and the consequences of not having allies are fully exposed. Even the world's most powerful country is powerless to prevent the European continent from collectively stumbling!

This also paved the way for the British to abandon non-aligned diplomacy and implement a new diplomatic strategy.

In order to be able to cut off the logistical supply line of the Boers and block the blood transfusion to it from the European continent. The British Foreign Office found the Portuguese, hoping to get support, but unfortunately it is not so easy now.

The Germans, the French, and the Spaniards said, we don't agree! In the face of pressure from various countries, the Portuguese did not dare to express their position easily, and they hesitated to declare neutrality again and again!

They can withstand the pressure of other countries. The Spaniard's move to increase troops on the border terrified the Portuguese.

Everyone understands the actions of the Spaniards. The British rose up on the bones of the Armada, not to mention the lost colonies, and they still occupy the Strait of Gibraltar.

The Spaniards have no strength and are looking for the bad luck of the British, but it is no problem to teach the Portuguese who have gone out independently, and this time there are European countries to support them later!

Moreover, before the Spanish-American War, Spain was still the No. 1 power in Europe, and it was on the same level as Italy.

Historically, in 1898, the Spanish-American War broke out, and the Spaniards did not have the energy to interfere with the Portuguese moving closer to the United Kingdom. Now the conflict between the United States and Spain has not intensified, and the war is even less of a problem.

Under the intervention of European countries, the Portuguese expressed their neutrality very well. The Portuguese pretended not to see the merchant ships carrying arms from various countries, but they were determined not to lie in this muddy water anyway.

The British plan to use Portugal's financial crisis to force Portugal to compromise has not yet begun to fail. French loan sharks have long sharpened their knives and have made it clear that they are willing to lend to Portugal.