colonial forces, led by Lieutenant Colonel (later Major General) Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, was to divert Allied forces from the Western Front to Africa.... 54 KB (6,287 words) - 14:45, 19 April 2024 |
German Askaris and colonial volunteers under Lieutenant Colonel Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck. It was the beginning of the East African Campaign of World War... 13 KB (1,536 words) - 15:44, 31 March 2024 |
Lettow was a by-name given to a few Pomeranian nobles from a noble family from Vorbeck who went to assist Algirdas and Vytautas, the Great Dukes of Lithuania... 6 KB (791 words) - 02:41, 23 April 2024 |
Namacurra. It was the bloodiest engagement of German general Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck's campaign into Mozambique, and 209 of the British and Portuguese... 6 KB (657 words) - 17:42, 28 April 2024 |
Capone, Manfred von Richthofen, Anthony Fokker, Annie Besant, Charles Webster Leadbeater, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, Norman Rockwell... 46 KB (4,047 words) - 16:17, 27 April 2024 |
evaded the Allies since late 1917, the German Schutztruppe under Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck waged a guerilla campaign in Portuguese East Africa, attacking... 33 KB (4,055 words) - 04:45, 2 January 2024 |
where he was a classmate of his future superior Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck. He met his future wife Magdalene von Massow at Legnica in about 1844. In 1887 he... 10 KB (1,147 words) - 06:34, 30 March 2024 |
German officer in the Imperial German Army at the side of General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck in German East Africa. Claus was from 1917 the steward of an estate... 6 KB (429 words) - 01:54, 28 March 2024 |
the Freikorps with Lettow-Vorbeck and helped suppress the Spartacist Revolt. In the early months of the war, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck planned for Kraut... 7 KB (838 words) - 12:42, 9 March 2024 |
Africa, where he served under General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck in the East African theatre, where Lettow-Vorbeck had conducted a guerrilla campaign against... 6 KB (580 words) - 01:48, 3 November 2023 |
tennis player and engineer (d. 1915) 1870 – Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, German general (d. 1964) 1874 – Börries von Münchhausen, German poet and activist (d... 51 KB (4,986 words) - 14:58, 10 April 2024 |
Texas. During the First World War in German East Africa, Generals Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and Jan Smuts both used the Fabian strategy in their campaigns... 16 KB (1,954 words) - 21:29, 8 February 2024 |
war, and World War I. The regiment was disbanded in June 1919. Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck started his career in the 4th Foot Guards. List of Imperial German... 832 bytes (84 words) - 15:19, 14 February 2024 |
at the outbreak of World War I, he volunteered to serve under Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, despite outranking him, and became one of his front commanders... 3 KB (165 words) - 13:02, 24 February 2024 |
the revolver). During World War I, Askari troops under General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck in German East Africa were taught the German manual of arms. In... 4 KB (472 words) - 02:10, 11 February 2024 |
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck invaded Mozambique from German East Africa. Portuguese, British and Belgian forces spent all of 1918 chasing Lettow-Vorbeck and... 147 KB (17,798 words) - 06:16, 21 April 2024 |