East African Campaign (WWI)
1914 CE – 1918 CE
Remarkable four-year guerrilla campaign in German East Africa. Lettow-Vorbeck, with never more than 14,000 troops (mostly African askaris), tied down 300,000 Allied troops throughout WWI.
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Series of battles in East Africa during World War I
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East African Campaign (WWI)
1914 CE – 1918 CERemarkable four-year guerrilla campaign in German East Africa. Lettow-Vorbeck, with never more than 14,000 troops (mostly African askaris), tied down 300,000 Allied troops throughout WWI. He never surrendered and only laid down arms upon news of the Armistice.
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