The French claim descent from Rome, and the Gauls yet those empires fell in ruin. The Gauls were slaughtered by the might of Rome their civilization split asunder and cast to the fringes of history. Rome fell before Cartage twice before they triumphed, they feel before the Huns, the Arabs, and finally the Ottomans. Within our veins flows the blood of Carthage, the Caliphates, the Empire of Mali and so many more. The French are nothing before us for we have the knowledge that freedom is a right greater than anything that the French can hold away from us. We are the sons of empires and we will never give in. We will fight until our homeland is nothing more then ash and bones if we have to for we will not surrender, we will not bend, we will not break, we will not bow! We are the free people of the world and we will take back our freedom even if we must drown in the blood of the French to do so. Africa will be free. The Goa'uld could not keep us down and nor can the French. You may burn our homes slaughter our families and reduce our homes into little more then endless ruins and mines, but we will still fight. For we have set Africa ablaze and you can never put it out France. Never. Fight on Africa!
-Transcript of a radio address given by Spartacus one of the main leaders of the Great African Revolt.
The initial strike of the Great African Revolt had been quick, sharp, and hopefully decisive which is why it was so brutal. They knew that the French had total Air Supremacy and would be able to land the entirety of the French Foreign Legion in the heart of every major city across French Africa. If the rebels melted into the wilds and fought an insurgent war Goa'uld and Asgard derived sensors would mean that the French would be able to hunt them down easily. If they tried to establish fixed positions and fight from there the French could unleash the same treatment that Lima, Montevideo, and Bogota had suffered through which would wipe out the revolt easily alongside the population of French Africa and the massive industrial benefit that the colonies brought to Paris. So, to the natives having failed in their main aim of throwing the French out in a single revolt they were about to be reduced to atoms no matter what they choose to do. Now each revolt dealt with this in a different way the grand Saharan revolt melted into the sands (More detail on pages 28-31), the French Congolese revolt dissolved into terrorism following their slaughter at the Battle of Brazzaville (Pages 34-38), the Madagascan revolt fought onto the bitter end under the command of King Radama III only surviving thanks to the crisis of 1961 (Chapter 5). The majority of the West African Revolts were crushed quickly mainly due to the deployment of the Foreign Legion in particular the Red Hand brigade. While Central Africa became the horror image that we all know of today.
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The initial foreign reaction to the Great African Revolt had a very clear divide between colonizers and non-colonizers, With Germany, Spain, Russia, Italy, Belgium, and the Netherlands all supporting France in the conflict. The United Empire and their close allies of Portugal, Norway, Iceland, and the Hellenic Empire all stayed neutral just releasing statements hoping that the situation be resolved peacefully. While the Republic of Turkey, Poland, the Kingdom of the Arabs, the United States of America, all of Latin America, Indochina, Morocco, Ethiopia, and the Kingdom of the Sahara supported the revolt.
The Imperial government immediately began to shore up their support among the African Imperial Territories with Prime Minister Robert Menzies 'liberating' some proposals from the Labour party to make the British more popular in Africa. They allowed education of native languages and 'influenced' the Orange Free State into lightening Apartheid within the first few months and as the horrors of what the French were going through was revealed through the actions of the IBU and the Washington Post the support for establishing equality with Africa skyrocketed. This forced Menzies to call the Cape Town conference in 1960 which is the reason that the United Empire still holds onto Africa. The rest of the colonizing world did not have this reaction.
Germany immediately moved three divisions to Ostafrika, and two to Kameron were they began to dig in along the border to stop any insurgents crossing the border. The French were very pleased with this assuming that the Germans would cede the prisoners to the French when the government of Ludwig Erhard refused to hand over the insurgents instead detaining them in Südwestafrika. The French nearly started a crisis over the German refusal claiming that they were abetting enemies of France. The Germans then transferred the prisoners to East Prussia to show that they were willing to compromise. This was still not enough for the French who demanded all insurgents be handed over to them and tried under French law. This demand was made the exact day that photos of what the French did in Djibouti was leaked to the Imperial Broadcasting Union. The French backed down after that though they continued to petition the United Empire, Germany, Ethiopia, Portugal, Morocco, the Kingdom of the Sahara, and the Kingdom of the Arabs to hand over the insurgents that had fled over the border to France. They all refused which made the already tense relationship France had with the outside world plummet faster than value of Tulips in 1637.
France's international relationships were not the only thing that collapsed by the 1st of April with the French economy collapsing as all international firms withdrew from the nation. While the Franc did not collapse having been pegged to the Imperial Pound alongside the currencies of the rest of the European Union everything else did. The trade that once flowed across the Franco-German border died as France sent captured insurgents to abandoned factories in Africa for hard labour. The French were seen as sadistic pariahs which obliterated their economy for the next few decades and led directly to the events that happened in October of 1959.
-Extract from Nathaniel 1st Duke of Mornington's book The Flames of Freedom: The Great African Revolt.
