Hello, I am DjBaraca. This is my new timeline. I am generally new to this part of the forum as I spend most of my time chilling in the pre 1900 section. But recently my interest has sparked for WW1 and WW2 history, which I am finding fascinating. I as read I began to read about the Boer war. which inspired this timeline. In this the Black Week(they get their asses handed to the repeatedly for a week) goes a lot worse for the British than OTL. This inspires Kaiser Wilhelm to try to back the Boer to piss the British off my sending some volunteer regiments, and military advisors to help the Boers. Ultimately this all leads to a very different 20th century. This timeline will feature a conflict of a massive scale. A cold war of not 2 but 3 powers. It is a history of people divided by ideology, religion, classes, wealth, and nationalities. We will see history through the eyes of the people who lived it like the Great Gamal Nasser and revolutionaries Moraji Desari, and great generals like . Come and join me in a journey through an alternate history. (This is a narrative/History books style timeline with narrative by a series of key characters like Nasser, and history book style to describe the wider events)
So here is the first update
Durban, South Africa August 8, 1900
Paul was sitting on the side of the trench, that was being dug all a round him. He opened up a pack cigarettes from his pocket. He never smoked before the war, before he decided to volunteer to go as part of a military attaché for the Boer governments. He remembered the days of his positing at Wilhelmshaven. How simple things seemed to be back then. He looked into his pack there were only two left, with a sigh of remorse he withdrew one of them and placed it into his mouth, and slowly lighting it. From the corner of his eye he could see the British forces slowly advancing on the heights that they occupied. It was only minutes before that they had bombarded the heights. Yet it had little effect. He looked around him the trenches were surprisingly unaffected. He tried to remember his first barrage, back only a few months ago at Estcourt. He remembered the deafening sounds as they tried to ride themselves of use. Yet despite this, the war didn’t not seem to be going anywhere. It had about 8 months, since the Black Month, as the British seemed to call it. The Boer had seemed to do the impossible; they had beaten the British time after time. For a month the Boer seemed to be unstoppable, as they pushed the British out of their lands. Now here he was stuck in Natal, all because his Kaiser wanted him to be apart of mission to the South African Republic to help and modernized the military and led its volunteers.
“Major! Orders from General Burger.” Corporal Fredrich Hofauer shouted as a approached me. I quickly turned around and grab the letter from his hands a read it allowed.
“Hold your ground, until given the appropriate signal, then charge the British. We’ll that’s sure helpful he didn’t even bother to tell us what the signal would b….”
All of the sudden a gunshots ringed out. Hofauer tackled me to the ground, the moment the bullets started flying. I quickly ran over and grabbed my rifle, and crouched next to a side of the trench. I looked down the barrel of my sight and with as if all of my muscles acted in prefect unison I pulled the trigger. The Briton fell down clenching his chest. I shiftily turned around and fired again dropping another two men one shot hit this breaded man in the leg, the other man I hit through his heart. I swung over getting a couple of shot off on what appeared to be a officer, who held a considerable growth in terms of his weight. Then three Britons approached me with bayonets borne. The first one charged me but I was able to use my rifle butt to knock him out the other two charged behind their friend. I was able to get a shot off on one of the placing one right above the mouth of a heavily bearded Scottish man. But the other man was stabbed me in the arm. The pain was unbearable. It was a pain I had never felt before. I tumbled to the ground. The man slowly withdrew the bayonet from my arm and was poised to finish me off. I close my eyes, expecting what was going to happen next. Then there was a bang.
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The Black Month was one of the worst months for the British Military in history. It all began at the Battle of Magersfontein. As the battle progressed the Boer began bombard the British positions. This in turn was able to help save the Scandinavian Corps who were making a heroic last stand to protect the guns. The British began to panic and run. General Metuen attempted to rally his troops but was killed by a sniper. Without their commander the British were forced to run. General Cronje toke the opportunity and decided to use his force to chase down the British forces. The Gordons and Scots guards attempted to fall back, but sniping by Boer commandos killed most of their commanders forcing them to flee. The Boer victory at Magersontein sent the British army into complete disarray General Cronje was not only able to relieve the British siege of Kimberly but was able to seize the rail line cutting the leaderless British from their supplies. In Natal the Boers were able to crush the British at Colenso forcing General Redvers Buller to fall back to the town of Frere. At Frere the British were defeated again and Buller was forced to fall back to Durban to regroup. News of the Boer victory quickly reached Europe and caught the ears of German Kaiser Wilhelm II and the Boer leader in exile Paulus Kruger. Using the recent victories in the war Kruger was able to convince Wilhelm that the war was not lost for the Boer and that they could give the Brits a bloody nose. After series of meeting through out March of 1900, Kaiser Wilhelm II agreed to send 3 regiments of volunteers, supplies, and military advisors to the Boer yet he refused to declare war against Britain not wishing for a war. Wilhelm response served as an example for the rest of Europe the Dutch, Sweden, Austria-Hungary, Italy and even France followed Germany lead and agreed to back the nascent Boer Republic by sending supplies, and openly condemning the British actions against the Boers. The first of the division and military arrived in June of 1900 and saw thier first action outside of Durban on August 8, 1900.
So here is the first update
Aufstieg des Schwarzen Adler
Durban, South Africa August 8, 1900
Paul was sitting on the side of the trench, that was being dug all a round him. He opened up a pack cigarettes from his pocket. He never smoked before the war, before he decided to volunteer to go as part of a military attaché for the Boer governments. He remembered the days of his positing at Wilhelmshaven. How simple things seemed to be back then. He looked into his pack there were only two left, with a sigh of remorse he withdrew one of them and placed it into his mouth, and slowly lighting it. From the corner of his eye he could see the British forces slowly advancing on the heights that they occupied. It was only minutes before that they had bombarded the heights. Yet it had little effect. He looked around him the trenches were surprisingly unaffected. He tried to remember his first barrage, back only a few months ago at Estcourt. He remembered the deafening sounds as they tried to ride themselves of use. Yet despite this, the war didn’t not seem to be going anywhere. It had about 8 months, since the Black Month, as the British seemed to call it. The Boer had seemed to do the impossible; they had beaten the British time after time. For a month the Boer seemed to be unstoppable, as they pushed the British out of their lands. Now here he was stuck in Natal, all because his Kaiser wanted him to be apart of mission to the South African Republic to help and modernized the military and led its volunteers.
“Major! Orders from General Burger.” Corporal Fredrich Hofauer shouted as a approached me. I quickly turned around and grab the letter from his hands a read it allowed.
“Hold your ground, until given the appropriate signal, then charge the British. We’ll that’s sure helpful he didn’t even bother to tell us what the signal would b….”
All of the sudden a gunshots ringed out. Hofauer tackled me to the ground, the moment the bullets started flying. I quickly ran over and grabbed my rifle, and crouched next to a side of the trench. I looked down the barrel of my sight and with as if all of my muscles acted in prefect unison I pulled the trigger. The Briton fell down clenching his chest. I shiftily turned around and fired again dropping another two men one shot hit this breaded man in the leg, the other man I hit through his heart. I swung over getting a couple of shot off on what appeared to be a officer, who held a considerable growth in terms of his weight. Then three Britons approached me with bayonets borne. The first one charged me but I was able to use my rifle butt to knock him out the other two charged behind their friend. I was able to get a shot off on one of the placing one right above the mouth of a heavily bearded Scottish man. But the other man was stabbed me in the arm. The pain was unbearable. It was a pain I had never felt before. I tumbled to the ground. The man slowly withdrew the bayonet from my arm and was poised to finish me off. I close my eyes, expecting what was going to happen next. Then there was a bang.
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The Black Month was one of the worst months for the British Military in history. It all began at the Battle of Magersfontein. As the battle progressed the Boer began bombard the British positions. This in turn was able to help save the Scandinavian Corps who were making a heroic last stand to protect the guns. The British began to panic and run. General Metuen attempted to rally his troops but was killed by a sniper. Without their commander the British were forced to run. General Cronje toke the opportunity and decided to use his force to chase down the British forces. The Gordons and Scots guards attempted to fall back, but sniping by Boer commandos killed most of their commanders forcing them to flee. The Boer victory at Magersontein sent the British army into complete disarray General Cronje was not only able to relieve the British siege of Kimberly but was able to seize the rail line cutting the leaderless British from their supplies. In Natal the Boers were able to crush the British at Colenso forcing General Redvers Buller to fall back to the town of Frere. At Frere the British were defeated again and Buller was forced to fall back to Durban to regroup. News of the Boer victory quickly reached Europe and caught the ears of German Kaiser Wilhelm II and the Boer leader in exile Paulus Kruger. Using the recent victories in the war Kruger was able to convince Wilhelm that the war was not lost for the Boer and that they could give the Brits a bloody nose. After series of meeting through out March of 1900, Kaiser Wilhelm II agreed to send 3 regiments of volunteers, supplies, and military advisors to the Boer yet he refused to declare war against Britain not wishing for a war. Wilhelm response served as an example for the rest of Europe the Dutch, Sweden, Austria-Hungary, Italy and even France followed Germany lead and agreed to back the nascent Boer Republic by sending supplies, and openly condemning the British actions against the Boers. The first of the division and military arrived in June of 1900 and saw thier first action outside of Durban on August 8, 1900.