Regional1896

Battle of Adibo

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Adibo · near Yendi · Dagbon

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

In December 1896 the German Schutztruppe under Lt. von Massow defeated the spear-armed Dagomba of Dagbon and razed the capital Yendi, completing German control over eastern Dagbon within Togoland.

Belligerents2

German Empire
Kingdom of Dagbon

ON THE MAPGerman Empire

Sources

Wikipedia: Battle of Adibo
Histories of German Togoland
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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