{"id":64939,"date":"2023-04-18T02:50:32","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T07:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.wordpress.com\/?p=64939"},"modified":"2023-04-18T02:50:32","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T07:50:32","slug":"know-your-ww1-history-the-east-africa-campaign-and-colonel-paul-von-lettow-vorbeck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/18\/know-your-ww1-history-the-east-africa-campaign-and-colonel-paul-von-lettow-vorbeck\/","title":{"rendered":"Know Your WW1 History: The East Africa Campaign and Colonel Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The East Africa Campaign<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n

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On the outbreak of war in 1914, Colonel Paul Von Lettow-Vorbeck<\/a> was the commander of a small army in German East Africa (Tanzania, Burundi and Rwanda). He was determined to tie down as many Allied troops as he could in the region to prevent them from being deployed elsewhere.<\/em><\/h2>\n

With an army that never numbered more than around 14,000 men – comprising about 3,000 Germans and 11,000 askaris (African soldiers) – he succeeded in occupying ten times that number of Allied troops.<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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For further study:<\/h2>\n

My Reminiscences of East Africa: The German East Africa Campaign in World War One \u2013 A General\u2019s Memoir<\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n

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