First Battle of Jaunde | |||||||
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Part of the Kamerun Campaign in World War I | |||||||
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The First Battle of Jaunde involved the attempted British and French assault on the German capital of Jaunde during the Kamerun Campaign of the First World War. The offensive started on 1 May 1915 and lasted until late June of the same year when Allied forces were compelled to withdraw. Due to a lack of coordination, difficult terrain, adverse weather conditions, and stiff German resistance, the attack on Jaunde failed. Another assault on the capital would not be conducted until later that year.
Background
Allied assault
Aftermath
Notes
References
- Burg, David F., and L. Edward. Purcell. Almanac of World War I. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky, 1998.
- Dane, Edmund. British Campaigns in Africa and the Pacific, 1914-1918,. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1919.
- Germans in East and West Africa. Journal of the African Society 15 (1915): 1-10.
- Hilditch, A. N. Battle Sketches, 1914–1915. Oxford University Press, 1915.
- O'Neill, Herbert C. The War in Africa and the Far East. London: London Longmans Green, 1918.
- Strachan, Hew. The First World War in Africa. Oxford University Press. 2004. ISBN 0-199-25728-0
- Dobell, Charles M. United Kingdom. War Office. Cameroons Campaign Army Despatch. 1 March 1916. Web.
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