First African War (Qu'il Tous)

Background
The causes First African War goes back to 1877 when the British, in their plan to rebuild an African Empire, annexed the South African Republica and the Orange Free State, for the purpose of taking the diamonds that lay underneath the two countries. But the Boers, Dutch-based people who live in South Africa following the area's annexation by Britain after the Dutch defeat in the First European War, were determined to keep their independence. They sent representatives to Paris to ask France to intervene against the British annexation, but the French remained against the idea as they had more to gain from allowing the British annexation, mainly the Treaty of Edinburgh. The Treaty dictated in 1878, stated that in exchange for France recognizing the British annexation of South Africa, the British wouldn't interfere with the French taking of Madagascar.

But the British did not fully apply this deal to all of their citizens, multiple British companies set up trading posts in Madagascar, mostly because of its positioning between South Africa and India. The French enforced the treaty by entering any British port on Madagascar with their navy and forcing the people who lived their to leave. No casualties were reported until the Raleigh Incident, on October 25, 1879, the HMS Raleigh, a British frigate, was sunk by the French battleship Devastation while the Raleigh was in harbor in Madagascar. The British were outraged, but the French accused the British of not only defying the Treaty of Edinburgh, but for sending their own navy into what became known to the French government as Port pirates (Pirate ports). The French officially delcared the treaty null and void as of January 1, 1880, and just 4 weeks later, the French delcared war on Britain.