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East African Campaign (WWI)

1914 CE – 1918 CE · 4 years

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. He never surrendered and only laid down arms upon news of the Armistice.

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Belligerents

The main peoples, kingdoms and states involved.

  • German Empire (Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck)
  • British Empire, Belgium, Portugal

Key moments

Defining events in the East African Campaign (WWI).

  1. 1914 Battle of Tanga
  2. 1917 Battle of Mahiwa
  3. 1918 Chase through Mozambique

Elsewhere in Africa at the time

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Landmark · Africa

Taï National Park

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Africa

Anglo-Egyption Sudan

Attested 1914 CE

Conflict · Africa

Somaliland Campaign (Dervish War)

1899 CE – 1920 CE

Landmark · Africa

Rwenzori Mountains

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Africa

German South-West Africa

1884 CE – 1915 CE

Conflict · Africa

Italo-Senussi War

1911 CE – 1932 CE

Landmark · Africa

Serengeti National Park

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Africa

Togoland

1884 CE – 1914 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1914 CE and 1918 CE.

1914 CE Cathedral Notre-Dame du Congo 1914 CE World War I 1914 CE Al-Muhdhar Mosque 1914 CE Battle of Tannenberg 1914 CE Battle of the Marne

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Las Lajas Sanctuary Landmark · Americas 1916 CE – still standing Persia Polity · Middle East 400 CE – 1914 CE Panama Canal Route Trade route · Americas 1914 CE John F. Kennedy Figure · United States 1917 CE – 1963 CE Dutch–Aceh War Conflict · East Asia 1873 CE – 1914 CE Grand Canyon Landmark · Americas 3000 BCE – still standing
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