A. F. (Albert Pollard) Pollard

Capitolo 68

subjugated being. It was on the ransom of Ireland, and you/he/she was hemmed in on
all side, from sea-power British on the south, Nigeria on the west, and
French colonies on the north and east;  and converging forced attacks
the handful of German troops to made unconditional 27 August,
The Cameroons is greater than the German empire in Europe and the
before the attacks, while being being done with inadequate preparation, it was rejected
in the second days of August. 27 September, however, from co-
operation between French troops and two British war ships, Duala the
capital was captured and the whole coast-line was grabbed.

The conquest of Southwest German Africa was a more serious matter,
not only because the Germans were more numerous and best there
organized, but because the assignment was complicated from the politics of the
Union. It was not a colony of Crown subject to the orders of the imperial one
Government;  troops could only stir to the example of a person responsible
local administration and him back-veld Boers, conducted by Hertzog and De
Baths, were valiantly opposite to share in the war on the
English side. The Germans perhaps started, fortunately, the hostilities from
making raids the frontiers of Head Colony and 18 September the English
him retaliated grabbing Luderitz Bay that, as theirs other I bring,
Swakopmund, the Germans had abandoned to assemble to their hinterland
capital, Windhoek. The 26 was a small British reverse to
Sandfontein that was followed by the most serious news of Maritz'
rebellion in the Head. Maritz had fought against the English in the
Boer war and for the Germans against the turned Hereros;  he now contained
the ambiguous position of line in the German army and command of
British strengths, but it came down on the German side of the enclosure. Botha
ordered his/her arrest and Maritz, with German assistance in arm and
ammunition, tried to overflow the northwest of Head Colony. A
the country of two weeks in October ended with him the dispersion of his
commands of Colonel Van Deventer.