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Battle of Tanga (1914)
On the WWI map as “Tanga”
2-5 Nov 1914 — Lettow-Vorbeck’s askari, outnumbered 8-to-1, rout a British-Indian landing (helped, the story goes, by swarming bees). His East African force will keep 130,000 imperial troops chasing it until after the armistice.
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- WWI outside Europe (chapter 9 of WWI)
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- The Great War, 1871–1923
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