Kamerun campaign

Kamerun campaign
Part of the African theatre of World War I
British QF 12-pounder 8 cwt firing at Fort Dachang in 1915
Date 6 August 1914 – 10 March 1916 (1 year, 7 months and 4 days) Location German Kamerun and British Nigeria 03°52′N 11°31′E / 3.867°N 11.517°E / 3.867; 11.517 Result Allied victory Territorial changes Kamerun divided into League of Nations mandates under British and French rule (1919)
Belligerents
British Empire Nigeria  India  France French Equatorial Africa Belgium  Belgian Congo	Germany Kamerun
Commanders and leaders
Charles M. Dobell Frederick H. Cunliffe Joseph G. Aymerich Félix Fuchs	Karl Ebermaier Carl H. Zimmermann
Units involved
WAFF WIR[1] Force Publique	Schutztruppe
Strength
British: 1,668–7,000[2] French: 7,000 Belgian: 600–3,000[3][4] Total: 9,000	1914: 1,855 1915: 6,000[5]
Casualties and losses
British: 917–1,668[6] French: 906–2,567[7][8]	5,000[9]
hundreds to thousands of Duala civilians killed[10]

The Kamerun campaign took place in the German colony of Kamerun in the African theatre of the First World War when the British, French and Belgians invaded the German colony from August 1914 to March 1916. Most of the campaign took place in Kamerun but skirmishes also broke out in British Nigeria. By the Spring of 1916, following Allied victories, the majority of German troops and the civil administration fled to the neighbouring neutral colony of Spanish Guinea (Río Muni). The campaign ended in a defeat for Germany and the partition of its former colony between France and Britain.