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Name: British Cameroon

Type: Polity

Start: 1916 AD

End: 1961 AD

Parent: great britain

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Was a British mandate territory in British West Africa.

Establishment


  • March 1916: Provisional division of militarly occupied German Kamerun between France and the United Kingdom.
  • Chronology


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    1. World War I


    Was a global conflict between two coalitions, the Allies (primarily France, the United Kingdom, Russia, Italy, Japan, and the United States) and the Central Powers (led by Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire). It was mainly caused by the competition of the western countries over domain in Europe and in the rest of the world with their colonial empires. The war ended with the defeat of the Central Powers. The war also caused the Russian Revolution and the ensuing Russian Civil War.

    1.1.World War I African Theatre

    Was the African Theatre of World War I.

    1.1.1.Kamerun Campaign

    Took place in the German colony of Kamerun in the African theatre of the First World War when the British, French and Belgians invaded the German colony.


    2. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)


  • May 1961: Northern Cameroons became the Sardauna Province of Northern Nigeria.

  • October 1961: Southern Cameroons became West Cameroon, a constituent state of the Federal Republic of Cameroon.

  • Disestablishment


  • May 1961: Northern Cameroons became the Sardauna Province of Northern Nigeria.
  • October 1961: Southern Cameroons became West Cameroon, a constituent state of the Federal Republic of Cameroon.
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