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Battle of Tabora
1916 battle during the East African Campaign of WWI / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Battle of Tabora (French: Bataille de Tabora; 8–19 September 1916[1]) was a military action which occurred around the town of Tabora in the north-west of German East Africa (modern-day Tanzania) during World War I. The engagement was part of the East Africa Campaign and was the culmination of the Tabora Offensive in which a Belgian force from the Belgian Congo crossed the border and captured the settlement of Kigoma and Tabora (the largest town in the interior of the German colony), pushing the German colonial army back. The victory not only left much of the Ruanda-Urundi territory under Belgian military occupation but gave the Allies control of the important Tanganjikabahn railway.[2][3]
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Part of the East African Campaign of World War I | |||||||
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1,300 | 400 (228 captured) |
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