breaker morant and other subjects

[unmerged(17214)]

hey guys i was just thinking in the boer war there was a man named Breaker Morant who was an Australian soldier. And yeah the english condemned him for murder for killing a german or sumtin so the germans got pissed at england so they used Morant as a scape goat so u could hav a choice of killing him which would rise the dissent of the aussies or not killing which would get the germans to dislike the british empire more

also u could hav a eureka stockade which the english could hav a choice of not listenin to them and there would be a major revolt or lower the taxes off them

there also could be the situation in lambing flats and the book "yellow wave"

 

[MacGregor]

Damn good movie too.

 

[Phil Beard]

Good film, yes. But I feel it was such a minor affair that nobody was going to bother with it in terms of international action etc or even Aussie rebelliousness.

 

[unmerged(11633)]

It was good film. Maybe there'll be some kind of option for fighting guerrilla wars. Take no prisoners etc. Maybe the UK will have the option of interning the boer population in Concentration Camps.

Or maybe for every guerilla insurgency, the imperial power will have the option of dealing with it in a nice way or a nasty way. Food for thought.

 

[Mr.Bigglesworth]

Originally posted by Gjerg Kastrioti
Concentration Camps.

Based on precedent, probably not

 

[unmerged(17214)]

yeah how bout Eureka stockade i think it was in the era of "Victoria" and if u dont kno. basically all the gold miners rebelled against the goverment but the rebellion didnt really last long but the goverment did massive reforms for it to not happen again


ps. iam not trying arrogant by just talking about australia cause thats the most stuff i kno bout

 

[unmerged(8384)]

Breaker Morant = great film. If there's any significance in game terms, it's that it set Australia against the British Empire - some parallel discussion on Canada in another thread on this forum. Australia remained loyal for WWi and WWII - but the Australian Gov't had to make the decision to go to war in both cases.

Basically, in the Breaker Morant incident the Australians played by maximum penalty rules, and were surprised when the British military authorities informed them that wasn't Cricket and then proceeded to court-martial and shoot them. Same folks who invented the concentration camp for Afrikaner women and children ... but I digress.

Keeping in mind that much of the Boer War was fought against people not in uniform - in some cases even in drag (cf. Pakenham, The Boer War, commandoes resorting to womens' clothing for lack of anything else to wear). Technically, the Boer commandos could in retrospect be considered civilian irregulars, francs-tireurs, unlawful combatants etc. and as such not subject to the Laws of War (even pre-Geneva Convention). Evidently Australian military lawyers failed to make the point convincingly - but then Britain had a vested interest in recruiting Afrikaners to support the Empire, too...

 

[unmerged(11496)]

Originally posted by d_gairdner
there also could be the situation in lambing flats and the book "yellow wave"

What were those incidents?

 

[unmerged(17214)]

well lambing flats was a scene where all the anglo saxons bashed up all the chinese. so u could hav the chinese get a negative attitiude on Australia

and "yellow wave" is a anti-asian book where the asians invade australia and i think this sparked alot of anit-asiatic feel