April 1896.
Madagascar Island.
As early as 1893, the French government increased its efforts to invade the Imerina Kingdom, and at that time forced the Imerina Kingdom to cede Dias Suler Bay to France.
Then, in 1895, the French government decided to annex the entire Imerina Kingdom, launching another war, capturing its Antananarivo, and finally achieving full military occupation of the Imerina Kingdom in April 1896.
Of course, in the French perspective, the Imerina Kingdom, being the main nation on Madagascar Island, was essentially equivalent to the island itself.
However, after the French fully defeated the British and controlled the Imerina Kingdom, they finally discovered that the Imerina Kingdom had already been divided by East Africa in the northeast direction of Madagascar Island,
