East African Campaign (World War I)

East African Campaign (World War I)
Part of	African theatre of World War I
Date	August 3rd, 1914 - November 25th, 1918
Location	East Africa
Result	Allied Victory
Territorial changes	German East Africaball's clay is partitioned by the Allies
Belligerents
British Empire UKball British Rajball Northern Rhodesiaball Southern Rhodesiaball Nyasalandball Union of South Africaball British Ugandaball Belgiumball Belgian Congoball Portugalball Portuguese Mozambiqueball Kingdom of Italyball Italian Eritreaball Ethiopian Empireball
German Empireball German East Africaball Ottoman Empireball Dervish Stateball
Strength
Initially 2 battalions 12,000–20,000 soldiers Total: 250,000 soldiers 600,000 porters
Regulars: 12,000 (Initially) 18,000 (Maximum) 1,283 (1918) 22,000 in total Irregulars 12,000+
Casualties
22,000 11,189 soldiers killed 95,000 porters killed 5,000 2,620 soldiers killed 15,650 porters killed 12,000+ 5,533 soldiers killed 5,640 soldiers missing/ (POW) unknown number of porter deaths 40,000+ total military casualties ~20,000 dead
16,000+ total casualties 2,029 killed 2,849 deserted 4,512 missing 7,122 POW 7,000 porters died

The East African Campaign was a major campaign of the African theater of World War I in which UKball and the other allies were bogged down fighting a guerrilla war against German Empireball in his colony of German East Africaball. The campaign involved extensive mobile warfare and the Germans mainly used guerrilla warfare tactics against numerically superior allied forces. Fighting eventually spread over to the allied colonies of British Ugandaball, Northern Rhodesiaball, Portuguese Mozambiqueball, and Belgian Congoball.