Togoland campaign

Togoland campaign
Part of the African theatre of World War I
Togoland in 1914
Date 6–26 August 1914 Location German Togoland (modern Togo and Ghana) 06°07′55″N 01°13′22″E / 6.13194°N 1.22278°E / 6.13194; 1.22278 Result Allied victory Territorial changes Western Togoland annexed by Britain Eastern Togoland annexed by France
Belligerents
United Kingdom  Gold Coast  France Dahomey	Germany Togoland
Commanders and leaders
Frederick Bryant Jean Maroix	Hans von Doering Georg Pfähler †
Units involved
Gold Coast Regiment Tirailleurs Senegalais	Paramilitary and police forces
Strength
British: 600 French: 500	693–1,500 (including reservists)
Casualties and losses
British: 83 French: c. 54	41
Lomé class=notpageimage| Map of independent Togo

The Togoland campaign (6–26 August 1914) was a French and British invasion of the German colony of Togoland in West Africa, which began the West African campaign of the First World War. German colonial forces withdrew from the capital Lomé and the coastal province to fight delaying actions on the route north to Kamina, where the Kamina Funkstation (wireless transmitter) linked the government in Berlin to Togoland, the Atlantic and South America.

The main British and French force from the neighbouring colonies of Gold Coast and Dahomey (part of French West Africa) advanced from the coast up the road and railway, as smaller forces converged on Kamina from the north. The German defenders were able to delay the invaders for several days at the Affair of Agbeluvoe (affair, an action or engagement not of sufficient magnitude to be called a battle) and the Affair of Khra but surrendered the colony on 26 August 1914. In 1916, Togoland was partitioned by the victors and in July 1922, British Togoland and French Togoland were established as League of Nations mandates.