The impact of the Balkan war on New Windsor was relatively minor the First New Windsor Regiment had served in Operation Snowfall and thus had to fight nobody at all the loss in the regiment was due to the man in question tripping and breaking his neck. When the Regiment retuned parading through the Stargate into the newly named New Avondale and down the road that led to Balfour the people of the rapidly growing colony cheered their homecoming 'heroes'. When the last of the celebrations had died down and the majority of the population slinked off to their beds a very important birth took place the 100'000th person was born on New Windsor the next morning this information was sent off to London and the process of integrating New Windsor into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland fully began.
Though some argued that it was 100'000 voting age citizens, but Arthur Balfour and his crumbling government leaped at the opportunity to maybe reinforce their government in the House of Commons and thus managed to pass a bill officially integrating New Windsor into the United Kingdom with an by election to be held in the new seat of New Windsor. The election represented the last hope of Balfour's government and he knew it if the conservatives lost the seat the long-desired motion of no Confidence would take place and he knew that several in his own party had lost faith in him. After weeks of campaigning the day before the election took place there seemed to be three main options the Conservatives, the Liberals, and the Labour Representation Committee. When election night came the results surprised everyone the workers of New Windsor had voted in Ramsay MacDonald as the Member for New Windsor. The opposition introduced a motion of no confidence which despite the best efforts of the government passed and Arthur Balfour resigned as Prime Minister and George V called the first General Election of his reign
-Extract from Tony Blair's book New Windsor: The Death of governments.
The 1911 general election is one of the worst showings for the Conservative party ever they lost their 12 seats that formed their government and alongside that 40 seats fell to the Liberals, 10 seats in Ireland were won by the Irish Parliamentary Party and the Labour representation committee won 7 working class seats held by the Conservatives. Winston Churchill continued in the Liberal party where he would remain for many years. As the new Prime Minister took over the government the wheels of change began to spin with the Commonwealth of New Zealand already integrated into the United Kingdom the integrated Caribbean colonies were divided into two Commonwealths, the Commonwealth of the West Indies and the Commonwealth of Jamaica further reinforcing that the future United Empire of Britannia would be a union of equals. He also began the creation of a welfare state in the United Kingdom expanding the powers of the government and granting powers to the Unions to secure support from the rising power of the Labour Representation Committee. He thought about working with the suffragettes and Francis Fisher but decided against it with his own prejudices convincing him otherwise.
The largest effect of both the Balkan war and the Asquith Ministry on the British military was that is started the Asquith reforms as the new Prime Minister began a process of research and renewal of the armed forces as many noted the major reason the British were so effective in the Balkan War compared to the Second Boer War was that the British had Plasma weapons available and the Turks knew that. So, Asquith ordered several Royal Commissions into the armed forces following their disastrous showing in the Second Boer War. The largest piece of information taken away was that wars had to end quickly and break through any defensive lines established by the enemy or else the war would turn into trench warfare as the Thrace Line seemed to be deteriorating towards. The other major piece was that the plasma weapons used by the British were the most important factor in the British victory and they needed to increase the amount of men equipped with the weapons.
-Extract from Edvard Olding's book The Prime Minister of Peace: The premiership of Herbert Asquith
Following the discovery of the Stargate in Egypt the number of archaeological digs in the region skyrocketed as the British government, private individuals and other foreign governments all sent in men to try and find any technology that we now know might have been left in the region by the Goa'uld. For the first few years little was found then in 1912 following Egypt's declaration of independence a British archaeologist found a pair of broken Death Gliders surrounded by Jaffa corpses bearing the mark of Ba'al when word of this reached the British government they immediately moved forces to secure the finds and the Egyptian government saw a direct benefit of funding and supporting the archaeologists as did several other nations. Though the Death Gliders found where used as part of the diplomatic bribes to Germany to help with the long-desired Cape to Cairo railway line by the British. They represented the beginning of the worlds focus on finding out about these people who had controlled both Earth and New Windsor with their incredible technology for if they could create the Death Glider and the Staff Weapons and as some though back then the Stargates as they did not know of the Lanteans in any form.
The largest side effect of the rising number of digs in Egypt was that the new Kingdom's economy began to grow rapidly with all the wealthy eccentrics that were funding new expeditions and digs in the new nation the new government secured a vital stream of revenue. Then the construction of Cape to Cairo began the joints funds of the United Kingdom, German Empire and the new wealth of the Kingdom of Egypt allowed for the construction to start both in the cape and in Cairo itself. The construction employed mostly local Egyptians further improving the Egyptian economy which was seen when the Egyptian government commenced construction on the Royal Egyptian Navy to aid the Royal Navy in both the Mediterranean and the Red Seas.
-Extract from Horrible Histories book Awesome Egyptians II.
The Cape to Cairo railway line had long been a desire of the United Kingdom, connecting their territories in South Africa with the Mediterranean Sea the largest problem with this was the German control over Tanganyika that divided the planned route in half. The United Kingdom after the Balkan war ended and the discovery of a pair of ancient Death Gliders on Egypt began negotiations with the German Empire on allowing the construction through their colonial territory. The Germans initial demand was the Death Gliders found in Egypt and plasma weapons that could be used equip Dreadnoughts the British refused to give up any plasma weaponry to anyone. The British counteroffer was to give them the Death Gliders and the technology found in the one found on New Windsor save for the plasma weapons. The Germans managed to secure a low rent from the land used to construct the railway. With the land secured the construction of the symbol of the might of the British Empire began connecting the shores of Europe through the heart of Africa to the southern shores of the continent.
The construction utilized the technology used by Death Gliders to fly on the trains to go at incredible speeds and cover the massive distance much faster than normal railways. The majority of the construction work was building stations where the train could stop and pick up or let off new passengers. The railway would have three trains running initially but it would expand and grow when other nations allowed the British to gain access to their colonial territory and extend the railway to many different ports and cities. The initial railway would actually expand the year after completion with stations being made in the Kingdom of the Arabs, the Assyrian-Kurdish Free Union, the Republic of Turkey, and the Kingdom of Greece the Cape to Constantinople railway.
-Extract from Wilbert Awdry's book Dream to Constantinople: A history of the Cape to Cairo railway line