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East Africa (First World War)

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*[https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA417332 ''When Elephants Clash: A Critical Analysis of Major General Paul Emil Von Lettow-Vorbeck in the East African Theater of the Great War''] by Thomas A Crowson, Maj USA 2003 Archive.org Defense Technical Information Archive Collection. DTIC ADA417332.
*[https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA416385 ''Battle of Tanga, German East Africa, 1914''] by Kenneth J Harvey, 2003. A thesis. Archive.org Defense Technical Information Archive Collection. DTIC ADA416385. In November 1914, British Indian Expeditionary Force "B" conducted an amphibious assault on the Port of Tanga in German East Africa.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120324184225/http://www.chakoten.dk/tanga_1914.html#n4 The Battle of Tanga – 1914] by Geoffrey Regan. This article , now archived, from "Dansk Militærhistorisk Selskab - Chakoten" is in English and Danish and appears is stated to be based on the Introduction to ''Brassey’s Book of Military Blunders'' by Geoffrey Regan. (However, there may be more than one editions of this book as nothing was seen in a 2000 US edition.)
*First page only of [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03071846809422315?journalCode=rusi19 "Armoured Trains in British India"] by Colonel A. A. Phillips C.I.E., V.D ''Royal United Services Institution. Journal Volume 113, Issue 651, 1968'' pages 254-257. There is mention of the armoured train crew from the Regiment sent to East Africa during the First World War. They operated until the railway lines were safe from German attacks and then manned a tug on one of the Great Lakes.
*Listen to the podcast [http://www.africaresearchinstitute.org/event/great-war-razed-east-africa/ How the Great War Razed East Africa: Edward Paice on WW1 in Africa] africaresearchinstitute.org
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