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The July 1915 German conquest South West Africa was a significant triumph for the British campaign in the African country South-West Africa was the only World War campaign planned, executed and successfully completed by a German Southwest British Dominion Africa now Namibia was a large territory, which was six times the size of England and is the second largest colony of Germany behind the south African campaign against German territory is rooted in following the First World war burst
Early in the war, the South African Prime Minister Louis Botha telegraphed London and told the authorities in London that the imperial troops have been released and the Force of South African Defense would keep the Dominion 1 After conveying the thanks of the crown, Botha has been said that if his troops could seize these parts of the German Southwest Africa as give them the command of Swakopmund, Lьderitzbucht and wireless stations there or inside, it would be a great imperial service Urgent 2 South Africans were able to collect a fifty thousand strong strength and landed a Lьderitzbucht force in September 1914.
In opposition to the South African forces, the Germans were able to less than three thousand Schutztruppe field and involve about seven thousand male settlers to increase their number of German colonial officials were not prepared for war and the government German held in the maxim, colonies must be defended in the North sea 3 Germans rely on the Boers rising to support their efforts and weapons stored in the case of such an uprising uprising took place in October 1914 and the South West Africa campaign came to a screeching halt After putting on the uprising Boer Botha telegraphed London it would resume campaign November 28, 1914 Botha rallied his troops, which included South Africans, Rhodesians and a regiment of armored vehicles, Swakopomund and began to move inward through the Namib desert during this campaign, South Africans met with German land mines and wells poisoned in mid April, the northern force Botha domestic market against stiff German r esistance and Jan Smuts force South began to advance this was the beginning of the final advance south African forces against the other German forces on 5 May 1915, Botha captured the railway center of Karibib and later captured the colonial capital of Windhoek without a fight after the capture of Windhoek, Botha met with German representatives to discuss the terms and said its terms as an unconditional capitulation the pressed South Africans over the release of prisoners of war camps, and closing on the German forces German forces were in a desperate position, outnumbered in a desolate area, and not possible to replenish 4.
On July 9, 1915, German forces surrendered The campaign was carried out efficiently with a minimum life loss South African forces lost one hundred and thirteen killed in 1331 5 Botha Germans defeated the German forces and the uprising of Boers, while simultaneously securing the borders of South Africa and increasing the safety of ocean line of England to 6 is the campaign provided a great service in the security of imperial communications and took control a Germany of the largest colonies campaign was quick British victory and resulted in one of the first of many conquests of German colonies by the allied forces.
1 Byron Farwell, The Great War in Africa 1914-1918 New York W W Norton Company, 1986, p 77 2 Ibid 3 Farwell, 75 4 John Keegan, The First World War NY Viking Press, 1998 208 5 Farwell, 103 6 Ibid.
Farwell, Byron, The Great War in Africa 1914-1918 New York W W Norton Company, 1986.
Keegan, John, The First World War New York Viking Press, 1998.
The Great War Society 90th anniversary German defeat in South-West Africa, big German defeat.