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NATALIA! A Boer TL



Prologue 1: 25th May, 1842

English trader Dick King, slightly dazed, began to crawl beneath his now collapsed horse. Minutes ago he and his servant had just begun their journey from Port Natal to gain reinforcements for the trapped British soldiers of the island. They had hoped they wouldn't be spotted, but just to their luck they had been cut short due to Boer musketry. Stuck now in the wilderness, bullet ridden, with nothing to do but die, he looks over to his young servant of 16 years age. Odd, he thought more of him than his own family back in the port. As he slowly approached death, his thoughts became grander. What would happen to Port Natal, to the troops trapped in their tent housing. He overall felt like a failure.

Through hazed and bloodied vision, he could see people walking towards him. However, he would never get to see their intentions, as at that moment, he took and died. The Boer Militiamen would carry the bodies of the two dead men with them and threw them into the ocean. The trapped soldiers would be sent with them to the next life, one by one, in the next month. Port Natal was under Boer control. Over the days the Boers became more organized, and they were prepared to give a hell of a fight for their territory.

Word of the rout would appear in the Cape Colony weeks later. The governor of the colony ordered an immediate attempt to take back the port. Ships of reinforcements were set up, and on July 30th, they began an attempt to retake the port via an amphibious landing. The Boers, however, were well prepared for the much larger British forces. Landing troops were seemingly fired at from all sides, causing mass confusion and panic among the British ranks. They managed to get only a small foothold, one that costed many casualties, before order collapsed. They were unprepared for the number of Boers there, and had not prepared for the type of fighting that ensued. The Boer victory was a major embarrassment, and It wouldn't be the last to come.
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