The East African campaign in World War I was a series of battles and guerrilla actions, which started in German East Africa (GEA) and spread to portions of Mozambique, Rhodesia, British East Africa, the Uganda, and the Belgian Congo. The campaign all but ended in German East …

German East Africa ( German: Deutsch-Ostafrika) (GEA) was a German colony in the African Great Lakes region, which included present-day Burundi, Rwanda, the Tanzania mainland, and …

With the German colonies in Western Africa falling fast to the combined Commonwealth and French forces, it seemed inevitable that German East Africa would fall soon as well. Most …

When the war broke out, Germany’s limited colonial holdings were quickly mopped up by the British, with the exception of German East Africa (now Tanzania, Rwanda, and Burundi). It was …

German East Africa after the First World War The peoples of Germany's African colonies recovered from the conflict against all the odds. Quentin Holbert | Published in History Today …

What was the East Africa campaign? Between 1916 and 1918, the East Africa campaign engulfed 750,000 square miles, an area three times the size of Imperial Germany. More than …

East Africa campaign. During the First World War, British Empire soldiers fought a four-year guerrilla campaign against a small German force in East Africa. Despite being outnumbered, …

On November 25, 1918, Allied and German forces received and accepted the terms, bringing an end to four years of conflict that had cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of African soldiers...

The military campaign in German East Africa during World War 1 went on longer than the whole war and thanks to Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and his guerilla warfare is now infamous among …

During the First World War the battles were not just confined to the European continent or even the Middle East but also Africa. While the Entente were able to eventually capture Germany's...