Dutch aquire Delagoa Bay

Reading the Boer War, it seems there were serious efforts made by Dutch officials to aquire teritory around Delagoa Bay (Mozambique) from the Portuguese. This area was nearly neglegted by the Portuguese. Dutch investments in the Boer Republics was considrable in the 19th century.
If both Govements came to terms waht effect would this have?
Delagoa Bay would give the Boer Republics acces to the sea.
 
You need to be more careful with your demographic terms. I'm pretty sure it was the Transvaal attempting to gain a sea coast that's relevant here as the Dutch don't seem to have been active at all on the coast since the 1720s. I think you want to be talking about the Boers taking Delagoa Bay, but if it is the Dutch then the Boer Republics may be butterflied away entirely.
 

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Reading the Boer War, it seems there were serious efforts made by Dutch officials to aquire teritory around Delagoa Bay (Mozambique) from the Portuguese. This area was nearly neglegted by the Portuguese. Dutch investments in the Boer Republics was considrable in the 19th century.
If both Govements came to terms waht effect would this have?
Delagoa Bay would give the Boer Republics acces to the sea.

Have you got a source for me? :)
 
Source : "De boerenoorlog by Martin Bossenbroek, I am not sure if it is in English.
The Boer Republics Oranje and Transvaal were considered established nations by the Dutch. The Dutch had how ever increasing, railroad, investments with an eye on further investments and trade and possibel more influence in Africa on the back of the Boer Republics. The Boer were considered the African cousins of the Dutch, at least by the Dutch. It was never the intention to make them a colony or what so ever as the British did.
Until the last decades of the 19th century the samll settlement on the Delagoa Bay was neglegted by the Portuguese and probably coast more money than that it gained.
The Dutch and the Boer however were looking for a acces to the sea whitout crossing British teritory.
The Dutch had a failed attemt in the early 18th century but the goal at that time was completly different as it is in the 18th century.
I do mention railroads since in OTL the attmet took place in the 2nd half of the 19th century. But is could be also in the late 1st half of the 19th century. In 1840 a trader of Amsterdam made a half harted atemt to start a trade post a thte coast of Natal.
 
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