Amerikaens Free State: Difference between revisions

=== The First Boer War (1901-1903), and the Creation of the Amerikaanse Free State ===

New Netherland and Tussenland was sympathetic to the Boers this time and saw the oppression as an opportunity to liberate the Boers, and more importantly, finally strike against the Mexican threat that borders them from the south. This triggered the 1st Boer War (yes, you read that right, the ''first''), which pitted the forces of Mexico against those of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and their colony, Dutch Tussenland, as later the forces of the independent nation of New Netherland after much pressuring from the Dutch. The war ended in a stalemate. In the resulting Treaty of Williamsburg (1903), the Boer territory was partitioned. The northern half became what is now the Amerikaanse Free State, while the southern half (now known as the region of Oranje-Goudlandt) remained under Mexican rule, on the conditions that certain freedoms still apply.