On the dawn of 12 April, two hundred German military men, recently came from Europe, and took up their positions around the small colony of Hornkranz. The settlement was the African tribe's habitation, the tribe was called Witbooi, and despite the fact that only just 100 kilometers from Windhoek, the capital of German South West Africa, Hornkranz's inhabitants had prosperously resisted the encroaching imperial power. However on that April morning their village was at peace. Most of its residents were sleeping. Their chief, Hendrik Witbooi, the man who had inspired a bold defiance of the German was quietly seated outside his home, enjoying coffee with his family.
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