Portuguese campaign in Mozambique | |||||||
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Part of East African campaign (World War I) | |||||||
15th Infantry Battalion departs from Lisbon for African colonies, 1914 | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
British Empire | |||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Wolfgang Weck Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck Erich Müller |
Pedro Massano de Amorim Eduardo Costa † João Teixeira Pinto † Eric Gore-Browne † | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
Unknown |
Initial deployment: 1,477[1] |
The Portuguese campaign in Mozambique during World War I was part of the broader East African Campaign. This lasted until the collapse of German forces in East Africa in 1918.