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The Zanzibar Volunteer Defence Force was a military unit raised in the British protectorate of Zanzibar during the First World War. It was formed to supplement the Zanzibar garrison after defeat in the 4 November 1914 Battle of Tanga left British forces in the region on the defensive. Though enlistment was voluntary almost the entire able ...
The British had identified Unguja, Zanzibar's southern island, as the main base of revolutionary power, whilst Pemba, to the north, was less affected. [15] Thus, Operation Boris would commence with a parachute assault on Unguja's airfield, launched from pre-existing British airfields in Kenya, with troops securing Unguja before repeating the ...
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The islands of Zanzibar and the African mainland. Zanzibar was an island country in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of Tanganyika; today it forms part of Tanzania.The main island, Unguja (or Zanzibar Island), had been under the nominal control of the Sultans of Oman since 1698 when they expelled the Portuguese settlers who had claimed it in 1499. [5]
Sometimes gradually, sometimes by fits and starts, control of Zanzibar came into the hands of the British Empire. In 1890, Zanzibar became a British protectorate. The death of one sultan and the succession of another of whom the British did not approve later led to the Anglo-Zanzibar War, also known as the shortest war in history.
Six of the countries with a fixed UK military presence are featured on the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's list of 30 "Human Rights Priority Countries": Bahrain, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Syria and Yemen. [3] A number of British military operations have relied heavily on the strategic island of Diego Garcia in the Chagos Islands.
SMS Königsberg HMS Pegasus The Battle of Zanzibar was an encounter between the German Kaiserliche Marine and the British Royal Navy early in the First World War.While taking on coal in the delta of the Rufiji River in German East Africa, the German cruiser SMS Königsberg learned that a British cruiser, HMS Pegasus, which had been part of the Royal Navy's Cape Squadron sent to counter ...
The British Agency, Zanzibar, 1872. Hamerton outstayed most Europeans in Zanzibar, where malaria and cholera were ever-present dangers and venereal disease endemic, [5] eventually spending fifteen years on the island, where, according to Alan Moorehead, "to a large extent the social and political life of the island revolved around him". [5]