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    East African campaign (World War I)

    • The East African campaign in World War I was a series of battles and guerrilla actions, which started in German East Africa (GEA) and spread to portions of Mozambique, Rhodesia, British East Africa, the Uganda, and the Belgian Congo. The campaign all but ended in German East Africa in November 1917 when the Germans entered Mozambique and continued th… See more

    Background

    German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) was colonized by the Germans in 1885. The territory spanned 384,180 … See more

    Initial fighting, 1914–1915

    The governors of the British and German East Africa wanted to avoid war and preferred a neutrality agreement based on the Congo Act of 1885, against the wishes of the local military commanders and their metropolita… See more

    Date3 August 1914 – 25 November 1918
    LocationModern Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo
    ResultAllied victory
    Territorial changesGerman East Africa partitioned by Britain, Belgium and Portugal
    Allied offensives, 1916–1917

    General Horace Smith-Dorrien was assigned with orders to find and fight the Schutztruppe but he contracted pneumonia during the voyage to South Africa, which prevented him from taking command. In 1916, Gen… See more

    German offensives, 1917–18

    British units forced the Schutztruppe south and on 23 November, Lettow-Vorbeck crossed into Mozambique to plunder supplies from Portuguese garrisons. Lettow-Vorbeck divided his force into three groups on t… See more

    Aftermath

    Nearly 400,000 Allied soldiers, sailors, merchant marine crews, builders, bureaucrats and support personnel participated in the East Africa campaign. They were assisted in the field by 600,000 African bea… See more

    Notes

    1. ^ 200 Europeans and 2,500 Askari.
    2. ^ 3,000 Europeans and 15,000 Askari.
    3. ^ 115 Europeans and 1,168 Askari.
    4. ^ 5,000 Europeans and 17,000 Askari. … See more

    Footnotes

    1. ^ Miller 1974, p. 41.
    2. ^ Holmes 2001, p. 359.
    3. ^ Garfield 2007, p. 274.
    4. ^ Contey 2002, p. 46. … See more

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