The traitors in Africa claim descent from Carthage but maybe they have forgotten what happened to Carthage when the full wrath of the Roman Empire was unleashed on the city. The city was reduced to ash and the earth was salted and we will do that if the need arises. France is strong. France will do what we need to too crush these traitors across our mighty empire. We the French people will emerge triumphant no matter what these accursed traitors throw at us. For we have the might of God on our side and nothing that the traitors across Africa have can stand up to us. We are the sons of Rome and we will break these despicable traitors with the full force of the French Empire. We were never conquered by the Goa'uld while those African traitors bowed before them for centuries. We are victorious! We are the lords of Africa and the monstrous demons will never take our rightful land from us. We are the greatest civilization ever placed on this earth and we will fight unto our last dying day against the African beasts. March on soldiers of France! Form your Battalions! France will never fall!
-Transcript of Pierre Sidos on the 1st of September 1959 (Author's Note: I do not condone racism which the above speech is filled with and I used a literal Nazi as the speech giver not to tarnish any moderate French people or a random French name.)
The Revolt in the French Congo was on of the most successful managing to secure the ruins of Brazzaville easily and pushing the overstretched garrison to the coast with the successful assassination of the local governor as he slept. This along with the breakdown in communications led to the military commander withdrawing along the Congo River to the city of Pointe-Noire where they waited for the next three days to gather reinforcements. The French dispatched two divisions to aid the lone division posted there prior to the revolt while in Brazzaville the People's Republic of the Congo was proclaimed to motivate the population. When that news reached the French troops they immediately began to advance towards Brazzaville with the customary level of firepower. Led by Death Gliders and artillery the French tore along the river aiming for the city. Initially they faced little resistance with the largest battle before they reached the city consisting of three scouts with outdated rifles against a brigade. They died quickly thankfully. When the French reached Brazzaville however that changed.
The Congolese had dug in with the four days they had available making use of the ruins that dominated the city since the Battle of Earth they had found good positions and armed with weapons smuggled in from the South American Inferno and possibly Argentina. The defenders actually had a large chance that they could hold the French of for quite a while. The battle began with a small bombing raid on the edges of the city. The raid was successful killing a majority of the defenders along the river itself which was met with praise from the French forces as they drew near. The first assault was led by the small teams that the Goa'uld War had perfected slipping through whatever gaps they could find and sent out word to the forces surrounding the city.
When the infiltration forces reported back the second wave charged in with their full force. Led by Landcrawlers the attack pierced through the defences along the river and wheeled north to cut off the west of the city from the heart of the defences. They were met with heavy resistance with four hundred defenders forcing the French into room to room fighting where they superior spirt of the Congolese was of more use. Despite this the French managed to trudge north as the western defences of the city were abandoned by the two-thousand men holding the line there. With the fall of the west of the city and the successful French capture of the Ile Faignand at 3:30 PM cutting of the city from the rest of the colony which was falling at a rapid pace the situation was dire. Outnumbered, outgunned and isolated any chance for the city to hold evaporated.
The final stage of the battle was in the plain that the Ha'tak attack had made the lack of ruins and vegetation meant there was no cover. The defenders had no where they could rout to and they knew that. As French troops prepared for the final offensive the Congolese troops began to sing. As the lyrics of La Marseille lifted through the air the French attacked with full force. Storming over the mounds hurriedly constructed they tore towards the Congolese with swords bare to secure the final victory. The Congolese held out for thirty minutes before the last soldier fell with a sword through their heart. With their death the revolt in the French Congo had been crushed. The crushing of the Congo Revolt quickly became a pattern with only Madagascar and the Sahara bucking the trend with their elongated insurgency. The Congo Revolt was unique in one way though it had been defeated without any major war crimes which would become a rarity following the rise of the [Redacted for spoiler purposes] Government and their sadistic policy towards the revolt.
-Extract from Nathaniel 1st Duke of Mornington's book The Flames of Freedom: The Great African Revolt.
As France withdrew from all international affairs following their idiotic interactions with their allies their contribution to the Goa'uld War evaporated becoming war criminals raping their way across Africa. The allies immediately began to expand their contributions in order to make up for the lack of French presence. As they did this the Replicators appeared more and more in the regions of the galaxy that humanity haunted. This was very bad since humanity only had one weapon that definitely worked against them that being the cleansing light of nuclear fire. With that information on how to make nuclear weapons only held by the United Empire of Britannia. The allies predictably began to pester the British for bombs as the Replicators appeared more and more as humanity waged war against the collapsing Goa'uld.
- Extract from Christopher Bowes's book The Bloody Wolves of the Stars: A history of Imperial Stargate Command.