Battle of Ngomano

When

25 Nov 1917

Kind

Battle

Coordinates

11.43° S, 38.49° E

Description

1917 battle

War

World War I

1917 battle in the East African Campaign of WWI

The Battle of Ngomano or Negomano was fought between Germany and Portugal during the East African Campaign of World War I. A force of Germans and Askaris under Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck had recently won a costly victory against the British at the Battle of Mahiwa, in present-day Tanzania and ran very short of food and other supplies.

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• Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “WWI: Battle of Ngomano – German forces defeat a Portuguese army of about 1,200 at Negomano, on the border of modern-day Mozambique and Tanzania”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Die deutsche Schutztruppe aus Deutsch-Ostafrika unter Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck besiegt in der Schlacht von Ngomano portugiesische Truppen unter João Teixeira…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “victoire allemande sur les Portugais à la bataille de Negomano dans le nord du Mozambique”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

• World War I28 Jul 1914 · Interstate war · Deaths 17,000,000