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Battle of Ngaundere

Battle of Ngaundere
Part of the Kamerun Campaign in World War I
Date 29 June 1915
Location Ngaoundéré, Kamerun
Coordinates: 07°19.3′N 13°35.1′E / 7.3217°N 13.5850°E / 7.3217; 13.5850
Result Allied victory
Belligerents

United Kingdom British Empire

German Empire German Empire

Commanders and leaders
United Kingdom Brigadier General Frederick Hugh Cunliffe
United Kingdom Lieutenant Colonel Webb-Bowen
United Kingdom Captain Fowle
Strength
200
Casualties and losses
Light

United Kingdom British Empire

German Empire German Empire

The Battle of Ngaundere or Battle of Ngaoundéré was a small engagement fought between German and British forces on 29 July 1915 during the Kamerun campaign of World War I. It resulted in a German defeat and British occupation of the town.

Following the Allied victory and German surrender at the Second Battle of Garua, the commander of French and British forces in the area, General Cunliffe, was confident in pushing deeper into the German colony of Kamerun. He moved a detachment of his force under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Webb-Bowen 150 miles southeast to the town of Ngaundere on the road leading from the north of the colony to the central plateau where the new German capital and concentration of military forces was.

The small advance unit under the command of Captain Fowle arrived at Ngaundere on 29 June 1915 after marching through a severe storm that produced a tornado. When the main body of the unit arrived, the storm still lingered over the town. As a result, the British troops were able to surprise soldiers stationed at many of the German outposts and take them captive before any fighting occurred. At some of the outposts however, fighting did occur resulting in light casualties to the British unit. After the German force had been driven from Ngaundere, it launched a counterattack which the British repulsed.


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