British Madegascar

I was wondering, if for some reason south Africa stays Dutch, the British will probably still want some kind of supply station near southern Africa. With Angola and Mozambique Portugese and South Africa Dutch might the British decide to use Madagascar as a waystation? Is it a viable option for the British at the end of the 18th start of the 19th century? Or is there a better location in southern Africa?
 

Thande

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I was wondering, if for some reason south Africa stays Dutch, the British will probably still want some kind of supply station near southern Africa. With Angola and Mozambique Portugese and South Africa Dutch might the British decide to use Madagascar as a waystation? Is it a viable option for the British at the end of the 18th start of the 19th century? Or is there a better location in southern Africa?

I think the British would just settle Natal. That's what I'm planning for my timeline, where South Africa stays Dutch.
 
I think the British would just settle Natal. That's what I'm planning for my timeline, where South Africa stays Dutch.

I have thought about that area too. I was wondering if the British would come into conflict with Dutch settlers who left the cape colony to settle elsewhere, like the boers did OTL. Also would the British run into trouble with the Zulu in Natal?
Would a British colony at Natal be more like OTL south Africa with a large English/white population or more like Kenya? (this is of course different in your timeline, Thande, with all the American colonies still British).


Anyway, Madegascar settled by the British around 1800. Unlikely or not?


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An interesting question, as well as a spolier to Thande's awesome TL. A two-fer-one! :D

Madagascar was rather modernized as African nations go, I believe. It was technically French, however, thanks to Moric Benovsky and his daring escapades. One way I could see it becoming British is if a) it actually becomes a French colony that gets siezed in the Revolutionary War or b) American ends up buying it from Benovsky and the British take it.
 

Glen

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I was wondering, if for some reason south Africa stays Dutch, the British will probably still want some kind of supply station near southern Africa. With Angola and Mozambique Portugese and South Africa Dutch might the British decide to use Madagascar as a waystation? Is it a viable option for the British at the end of the 18th start of the 19th century? Or is there a better location in southern Africa?

Hmmm...sounds intriguing.

Would Mozambique be better for a weystation? I don't know, but Madagascar seems that much further than Capetown...
 

Rockingham

Banned
Hmmm...sounds intriguing.

Would Mozambique be better for a weystation? I don't know, but Madagascar seems that much further than Capetown...
So the British "occupy" it, in exchange for helping the Portuguese against the French.... the good old Anglo-Portuguese alliance at work:p
 
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