Western Togoland annexed by Britain Eastern Togoland annexed by France
Belligerents
United Kingdom
Gold Coast
France
Dahomey
Germany
Togoland
Commanders and leaders
Frederick Bryant Jean Maroix
Hans von Doering Georg Pfähler †
Units involved
Gold Coast Regiment Tirailleurs Senegalais
Paramilitary and police forces
Strength
British: 600 French: 500
693–1,500 (including reservists)
Casualties and losses
British: 83 French: c. 54
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Lomé
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Map of independent Togo
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Theaters of World War I
Europe
Western Front
Eastern Front
Romania
Italy
Balkans
Serbia
Middle East
Caucasus
Persia
Gallipoli
Mesopotamia
Sinai & Palestine
Hejaz & Levant
South Arabia
Central Arabia
Africa
South West Africa
Togoland
Cameroon
East Africa
North Africa
Somaliland
Asia-Pacific
Tsingtao
Samoa
New Guinea
Central Asia
Naval theatres
U-boat
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Togoland campaign
Agbeluvoe
Khra
The Togoland campaign (6–26 August 1914) was a French and British invasion of the German colony of Togoland in West Africa, which began the West African campaign of the First World War. German colonial forces withdrew from the capital Lomé and the coastal province to fight delaying actions on the route north to Kamina, where the Kamina Funkstation (wireless transmitter) linked the government in Berlin to Togoland, the Atlantic and South America.
The main British and French force from the neighbouring colonies of Gold Coast and Dahomey (part of French West Africa) advanced from the coast up the road and railway, as smaller forces converged on Kamina from the north. The German defenders were able to delay the invaders for several days at the Affair of Agbeluvoe (affair, an action or engagement not of sufficient magnitude to be called a battle) and the Affair of Khra but surrendered the colony on 26 August 1914. In 1916, Togoland was partitioned by the victors and in July 1922, British Togoland and French Togoland were established as League of Nations mandates.
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bullets during the campaign and had armed native people not under their control, both violations of the Hague Conventions. Togoland was divided into French...
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and the last colonial governor of German Togoland before surrendering the position during the Togolandcampaign of the African theatre of World War I. Hans...
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nominated for the 1948 Nobel Peace Prize and was a campaigner for unification of British and French Togoland. He was called by the New York Post "the 'Irishman'...
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village of Khra, near the Khra River on 22 August 1914, during the TogolandCampaign of the First World War. The German defenders mined the approaches...
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as a Togoland Congress member before joining the United Party on the ban of the Togoland Congress in 1958. As a journalist, he founded the Togoland Vanguard...