Talk:East African Campaign (World War I)

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[edit] German High sea fleet

The german high sea fleet only had one cruiser with 10 4 inch guns in the area. The cruiser SMS Koenigsberg after sinking the old HMS Pegasus retired into the Rufije delta were it was discoverd and sunk by the Royal Navy. The guns were later used by Lettow Vorbeck. The comment on German pre dreadnough or battlecruisers in the area is nonsense. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.57.32.22 (talk) 21:41, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] List of combatants -- France

France is listed as one of the combatants but I couldn't find a reference to French participation and there were no French territories in the region at the time (Burundi and the Congo being Belgian). I suppose it is possible that some French or Francophone troops were sent from north or west Africa, the other possibility of course is that Malagasy troops were involved or French troops or naval forces stationed in Madagascar. Does anyone know? Rexparry sydney 23:01, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

As far as I know there were no French involved in this campaign. Beware Burundi was at that moment still German and Belgian-Congolese troops occupied it only after fighing with the Germans. After the war Belgium received Burundi and Rwanda as a protectorate (Everberg Belgium) H.Trappeniers 21:51, 1 May 2007 (UTC)