372 men, including 4 Europeans, 91 soldiers and 46 carriers; armed with breech-loaders[3]
The Battle of Adibo was a German military campaign in 1896 against the Dagbamba of West Africa in Adibo, now in present-day Ghana.[2] Following their resistance against foreign authority, the Dagbamba tribesmen met and launched an attack on the heavily armed German Schutztruppe and Askari paramilitary police accompanying the Lieutenant Valentin von Massow on his way to their capital at the village of Adibo, who had been sent by the German colonial administration to quell the rebellion. The Dagbamba fighters suffered significant losses on the second day of the battle and yielded after their capital Yendi was razed to the ground on December 4, 1896.[4] Defeat of the Dagbamba enabled the German Empire to complete establishing the Togoland protectorate, which encompassed the eastern part of the Kingdom of Dagbon. The western part of the Kingdom was released to the British and incorporated into the British Empire.
Written accounts of the incursion primarily come from the personal letters and diaries of von Massow to his mother, as well as his official reports addressed to the Governor of Lome under the colonial department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Berlin. Dagbaŋ drummer storytellers maintain a different oral account of the event.[3]
^Pukariga, Dasana. "Dagbon ? Recalling History, the Battle of Adibo".
^ abQuesada, Alejandro de; Dale, Chris (2013-08-20). Imperial German Colonial and Overseas Troops 1885–1918. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781780961668.
^ abMassow, Valentin (2014-07-07). Die Eroberung von Nordtogo 1896 – 1899: Tagebücher und Briefe (in German). BoD – Books on Demand. ISBN 9783954940424.
^Papathanassiou, Manolis. "Battle of Adibo". www.10000battles.com. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
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