“Was it?”
Yes, it was :roll: In 1914 the German colonies in Africa consisted of Togoland, the Cameroons, German Southwest Africa, and German East Africa. The combined British and French took possession of Togoland in August 1914 (which might be what you are refering to). In September of that year a British force invaded the Cameroons from Nigeria, and a French force invaded from French Equatorial Africa to the east and south of the Cameroons. After many campaigns in which the Germans several times defeated the Allied Forces, German resistance was finally overcome in February 1916 (meaning that the African battle lasted much longer than ‘one month’). German Southwest Africa was conquered, between September 1914 and July 1915, by troops from the Union of South Africa (like I said, the war stretched stretched all across Africa). The most important of the German possessions, German East Africa, displayed the strongest resistance to the attacks of the Allies. Early assaults by British and Indian troops (November 1914) were repulsed by the Germans under General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck. In November 1915, British naval units gained control of Lake Tanganyika, and the following year the Allied forces (British, South Africans, and Portuguese) intended for the invasion of German East Africa were placed under the command of General Jan Christiaan Smuts. In 1916 the Allies captured the principal towns of German East Africa, including Tanga, Bagamoyo, Dar es Salaam, and Tabora, and Lettow-Vorbeck’s troops then retreated into the southeast section of the colony. Late in 1917, however, the German forces took the offensive, invading Portuguese East Africa; and in November 1918 they began an invasion of Rhodesia. When the armistice was signed in Europe in 1918, the troops in German East Africa were still fighting, even though most of the colony was in the hands of the Allies (so this ‘one month’ war lasted the entire war). Lettow-Vorbeck surrendered three days after the European armistice was declared.
