World-changing1914 – 1918 · 4 years

East African Campaign (World War I)

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Tanga · Kilimanjaro · Mahiwa · Northern Rhodesia · Karonga · Fife

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Lettow-Vorbeck's incursions into Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia, including the surrender at Abercorn after the Armistice.

Belligerents7

German Empire
United Kingdom
Belgium
Portugal
South Africa
British Empire
Rwanda

ON THE MAPGerman EmpireBritish Empire (1900)Rwanda Kingdom

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 3

Battle of Tanga1914
Battle of Mahiwa1917
Battle of Negomano1917

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: East African Campaign (World War I) (1914 – 1918). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/east-african-campaign-world-war-i · Sources & methodology