Look my fellow Africans the Frenchmen reveal their true face that of murder betrayal and slaughter. They swear allegiance only to themselves they claim descent from the French revolutionaries of ages past, but they have betrayed all of those values of freedom and equality. They only wish to leave our great continent in ruins and to leave not a single man standing across the lands that make up the birthplace of humanity. But we will fight on for freedom is something that can never be taken away from any man for to quote the declaration of independence of the United States of America. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of happiness. We are securing those rights for the African People and we will never give in unless Africa itself is set aflame for the African People will not sell the rights of mankind to the French. We are the soldiers of liberation and we will fight to the death to claim our god given rights for we have fought against the Goa'uld and won compared to them the French are nothing. March on my African brothers and we will raise the flag of liberation from every balcony when the last French soldier withdraws from our land.

-Transcript of a speech given by King Radama III following the October Coup

The October Coup crippled the French ability to fight in the Great African Revolt with Free France having declared that all soldiers loyal to the crowns return to Brittany and Corsica to hold the line against the treasonous forces of the French Fifth Republic. Each military branch was divided with the vast majority of the navy defecting to the royalist forces while the majority of the army swore themselves to President Edmond Jouhaud the Air Force was divided cleanly down the middle which allowed so many soldiers to flee to Free France to hold off the forces of the French Fifth Republic. As several key divisions suddenly lost in some cases entire regiments the French ability to hold down the revolting continent was severely impeded with revolts breaking out in previously pacified regions. These were put down quickly with the brutality that became a hallmark of the French Fifth Republic with civilians dragged out into the streets and shot as the second wave of revolts were crushed. The crushing of the second wave of the revolts was in a way a boon for the revolts with the French relocating the majority of their forces back to the mainland to launch their invasion of Brittany and Corsica and crush Free France permanently.

This failed drastically with the force dispatched to Corsica annihilated before they even reached the island while the Breton front was under the command of overconfident megalomaniacal generals appointed based of ideological view rather than competence. The Free French with open support from the rest of the world were able to hold the Republican forces off. The brutal failure nearly brought down the Republic with a communist attempting to assassinate President Edmond Jouhaud following news of the disastrous Battle of Nantes. While the attempt failed it represented the closet the Fifth Republic was to collapsing in its early years and it took until the 1990's to finally end. Not that it matters when discussing the Great African Revolt.

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The Saharan Revolt was the most successful by far with large swathes of the French held Sahara falling to the revolt all lands between the Atlas Mountains and the French colonies in West Africa. When the French returned to secure control they found all settlements abandoned with only the rotting corpses of the French Garrisons left for the crows to feast on. The revolting populace had fled into the Sahara and often crossed the border into Morocco, Kingdom of the Sahara, or the Kingdom of the Arabs where they often got support from the government as they launched raid after raid against the French forces. The Sharan campaign became a brutal failure as the French troops were often unused to fighting in the desert and the sheer size of the front allowed the revolting forces to slip through the very porous lines to strike against the French rear and supply bases. As French journalists released images of airbases razed to the ground with the French flags replaced with the traditional flag of the Tuareg people over broken Death Gliders and rotting corpses. The French Fifth Republic started using the images as propaganda to go out and fight against the barbaric hordes of the Tuareg people that wished to destroy the French Race's god given empire. This usurpingly failed with seeing heavily fortified air bases falling to rebels does not strike patriotism into most peoples hearts.

Then came the kicker of the Battle of Lake Chad the battle which ended any chance for the French to hold onto the Sahara in the long run and seriously hindered them in the short run. The population had aided several raiding groups and the French found out. Instead of doing the rational thing of waiting for the groups to return for supplies hunt them down and eliminate them they decided to punish the local population in the only way they knew how. War Crimes and mass murder. As they increased the local garrison one of the resistance leaders put four and two together and got six. In other words, he realized that the French knew and were going to punish the local people. He immediately mobilized local cells of the revolutionary movements and struck with the full force of the Revolutionary force just as the French began the massacre the streets were paved with blood as both sides fought to the death but the superior armament of the French allowed them to secure victory and so begin their murders. Every man was dragged into the street and shot while every woman was raped before being killed the entire region was left in ruins as an example to the rebels. Though the French quieted any mention of the massacre outside of the Sahara and we only know about following the swathe of declassified documents from the Fifth Republic and most of the details about Lake Chad are still classified.

-Extract from Nathaniel 1st Duke of Mornington's book The Flames of Freedom: The Great African Revolt.