Significant1917

Battle of Mahiwa

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Mahiwa

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Bloodiest engagement of the East African campaign; Lettow-Vorbeck inflicted heavy losses on a Nigerian brigade before retreating into Mozambique.

Belligerents3

German Empire
United Kingdom
Nigeria

ON THE MAPGerman EmpireBritish Empire (1900)

Conflict graph

PART OFEast African Campaign (World War I)

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Battle of Mahiwa (1917). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-mahiwa · Sources & methodology