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The Battle of Tabora: Belgium's Forgotten Great War Victory
In 1914, King Albert I's Belgian army was pinned down in Flanders, but thousands of kilometers away, another Belgian force surged into German East Africa. This episode tells the story of the 1916 Battle of Tabora, where the Force Publique — a colonial army of African soldiers under Belgian officers — led by General Charles Tombeur, captured the strategic German rail hub. We look at the campaign's unlikely logistics, the role of Congolese askaris, the defeat of the German Schutztruppe, and how this victory shaped Belgium's colonial prestige. Also, the human cost: forced…
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