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Capture of South Africa

Name: Capture of South Africa – South Africa factsheet records
Creator: World History Database

South Africa · Warfare / World War, 1st. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

2Records

1915Date range

2Named people

0Places

Chronological records

1915

Louis Botha1915

Warfare / World War, 1st

Captures Southwest Africa

Jan Christian Smuts1915

Warfare / World War, 1st

Smuts & Louis Botha lead the South African army into German South West Africa & capture it

Names involved

Jan Christian SmutsLouis Botha

Provenance

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