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[[Image:Subsaharan-africa.png|thumb|400px|Subsaharan Africa]]
 
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==Overview==
 
==Overview==
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A southern African kingdom, a conglomerate of tribes previously found in the area united under the leadership of King [[Mokhachane I (d)]] as an alliance against the slave taking of Europeans and other African tribes. Officialy, it was founded in 1807.
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A central African kingdom, a conglomerate of tribes previously found in the area united under the leadership of King [[Mokhachane I (d)]] as an alliance against the slave taking of Europeans and other African tribes. Officialy, it was founded in 1807.
  
 
The Tswana Kingdom is notable even among African nations for its practice of elephant breeding. As other nations herd and breed cows or sheep, the Tswana Kingdom have bred elephants for size and docility to provide food for its large dragon population.
 
The Tswana Kingdom is notable even among African nations for its practice of elephant breeding. As other nations herd and breed cows or sheep, the Tswana Kingdom have bred elephants for size and docility to provide food for its large dragon population.
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In 1804 [[Mokhachane I (d)]] gained control over Mosi oa Tunya and was acknowledged as the king.
 
In 1804 [[Mokhachane I (d)]] gained control over Mosi oa Tunya and was acknowledged as the king.
  
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After [[William Laurence]] pointed out [[Mosi-oa-Tunya]] on a map to the French, as the location of the cure for the [[Dragon Plague]], a French expedition was sent to Africa. Later, it was revealed that the French not only secured the mushroom, but that they gave the Tswana Kingdom aid in the search for their missing people.
 
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After burning the African slave ports, the Tswana began attacking cities on the Mediterranean. The British were able to repel them at Gibraltar (presumably because of the covert there and Admiral [[Portland]]) but other cities were not so lucky. There were said to have killed ten thousand people in France and Spain. Still, [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] gave the kingdom his dragon transports so they could sail to the Americas, where their missing people were more likely to be found. This coincided with Bonaparte's war in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peninsula_war Iberian Peninsula], so the Africans were directed to the Portuguese and Spanish colonies in particular. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_de_Janeiro Rio] was said to be burnt to the ground. 
 
  
 
[[Category:A-Z|Tswana Kingdom]]
 
[[Category:A-Z|Tswana Kingdom]]
 
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