First Battle of Jaunde

Part of the Kamerun Campaign in World War I

Date	1 May - late June 1915
Location	Area around Jaunde, German Kamerun
Result	German victory

Belligerents

British Empire

British Nigeria

France

French Equatorial Africa

Germany

German Kamerun

Kamerun Campaign

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The First Battle of Jaunde involved the attempted British and French assault on the German capital of Jaunde during the Kamerun Campaign of the First World War. Due to a lack of coordination, difficult terrain, adverse weather conditions, and stiff German resistance, the attack was forced to retreat in late June 1915. Another assault on the capital would not be conducted until later that year.

References

Burg, David F., and L. Edward. Purcell. Almanac of World War I. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky, 1998.
Dane, Edmund. British Campaigns in Africa and the Pacific, 1914-1918,. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1919.
O'Neill, Herbert C. The War in Africa and the Far East. London: London Longmans Green, 1918.
Strachan, Hew. The First World War. Vol. I: To Arms. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Coordinates: 03°52′N 11°31′E / 3.867°N 11.517°E / 3.867; 11.517

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