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The assistance that South Africa gave the British Empire was significant. Two German African colonies were occupied, either by South Africa alone or with significant South African assistance. Manpower, from all races, helped Allied operations not just on the Western Front and Africa, but also in the Middle East against the Ottoman Empire. South ...
Operations on the Northern front, East Africa, 1940 in the Second World War, were conducted by the British in Sudan and the Armed Forces Command of Italian East Africa ( Comando Forze Armate dell'Africa Orientale Italiana) in Eritrea and Ethiopia. On 1 June 1940, Amedeo, Duke of Aosta the Viceroy and Governor-General of the Africa Orientale ...
9 May 1936. First holder. Pietro Badoglio. Final holder. Guglielmo Nasi. Abolished. 27 November 1941. This article lists the governors-general of Italian East Africa, a colony of the Italian Empire from 1936 to 1941. The Governor-General of Italian East Africa was also Viceroy of Italian Ethiopia.
Middle East Forces. Definitive British stamps were overprinted "M.E.F." beginning in 1942. They were available in Cyrenaica, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia, Tripolitania as well as in the Dodecanese islands in the Aegean. At the beginning of 1943, the color-changed definitives were also overprinted, and in 1947, the 5-shilling and 10-shilling ...
The British conquest of German East Africa was planned as a two-pronged invasion of the German colony, at the port town of Tanga and the settlement Longido on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro. The plan was designed at a Mombasa staff conference with Major General Arthur Aitken in overall command.
The Masai Agreement of 1904 was a treaty signed between the British East Africa Protectorate government and leaders of the Maasai tribe between 10 and 15 August 1904. It is often wrongly called the Anglo-Maasai Agreement, but that was not its proper name. [1] [2] The Maasai tribe agreed to cede possession of pastures in the Central Rift Valley ...
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t. e. The West Africa Squadron, also known as the Preventative Squadron, [1] was a squadron of the British Royal Navy whose goal was to suppress the Atlantic slave trade by patrolling the coast of West Africa. [2] Formed in 1808 after the British Parliament passed the Slave Trade Act 1807 and based out of Portsmouth, England, [3] it remained an ...