German Togo
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Was a German Colony, occupied through treaties and conquest, that included modern-day Togo and the Volta region of Ghana. During World War I the colony was invaded and partitioned between France and Great Britain.
Establishment
July 1884: Cokossi is annexed to German Togo.
July 1884: On July 5, 1884, Plakkoo, the baton bearer (= deputy) of King Mlapa III, who had probably died by then, and the German commissioner Gustav Nachtigal signed a "protection treaty". With this, individual places in today's Togo were declared a "German protected area".
July 1884: The village of Togo signs a protectorate agreement with German agents.
September 1884: With a protective treaty dated September 5, 1884, which was concluded between the Imperial Consul Heinrich Randad and the local chief Mensah, the area was added to the German Reich as colonial possessions.
Chronology
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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.Togoland Campaign
Was a French and British invasion of the German colony of Togoland in West Africa, which began the West African campaign of the First World War.
August 1914: A column under French Captain Marchand took Aneho.
August 1914: The French advanced to Porto Seguro and Togo.
August 1914: Allied troops led by French General Joseph Gaudérique Aymerich occupied the capital Lomé in Togoland, a German colony.
August 1914: The heaviest battle in Togo took place on August 22, 1914 near the Chra River. Due to the demoralized mercenaries and porters, and lack of ammunition, the position had to be evacuated by the Germans the following day.
August 1914: French and British forces arrived at Kamina. The German commander then surrendered on August 26, 1914.
January 1885: The German trading house Gaiser tried to colonize the coast near Mahin around 1884.
June 1885: The German Reich withdrew its protection over Mahin in favor of Great Britain.
December 1885: In 1885, Aneho was ceded to German Togo in a border treaty on December 24th. The exchange involved Kapitaï and Koba, which later became Conakry in Guinea.
July 1886: The border between the Gold Coast (now Ghana) and Togo was defined through a treaty between Great Britain and Germany in 1886.
October 1886: In 1886, Aného-Glidji, a territory in Togo, was under French control until the Germans took over. The French presence was no longer effective after the German takeover.
January 1887: From 1886 the northern hinterland of Togo was conquered by Germans, some of it by force.
January 1889: In 1888, Ludwig Wolf, a German explorer and colonial administrator, founded the Bismarckburg station in German Togo. This station was named after Otto von Bismarck, the Chancellor of the German Empire at the time.
January 1889: In 1888, the Kingdom of Dagbon in present-day Ghana was partitioned between the German Empire, which took control of the eastern part of the kingdom, and the British Empire, which took control of the western part. This division was part of the European scramble for Africa during the late 19th century.
January 1891: The German Misahöhe station was founded in 1890.
January 1896: In 1894/95, the colonial officer Hans Gruner led an expedition to the lower Niger on behalf of the German Togo Committee to conclude protection treaties with the Kingdoms there.
January 1897: German Togo expanded north to the region around Sansane-Mangu, where a station was built in 1896.
January 1897: The British became interested in the broad areas north of Asante, known generally as the Northern Territories. This interest was prompted primarily by the need to forestall the French and the Germans, who had been making rapid advances in the surrounding areas. British officials had first penetrated the area in the 1880s, and after 1896 protection was extended to northern areas whose trade with the coast had been controlled by Asante.
January 1897: Koma was passed to France according to berlin conference borders.
June 1899: Northern Nigeria was partitioned between Great Britain and France by the Anglo-French Convention of 1898.
January 1900: By 1899 German Togoland covered modern-day Togo and the Volta Region of Ghana, with the exception of the Salaga region.
February 1900: The so-called Salaga area was divided between Germany and Great Britain with the Samoa Treaty of 1899.
January 1914: Border agreements of the Conference of Berlin (1884) were applied to the borders of German Togo and the British Gold Coast.
Disestablishment
January 1914: Border agreements of the Conference of Berlin (1884) were applied to the borders of German Togo and the British Gold Coast.
August 1914: A column under French Captain Marchand took Aneho.
August 1914: The French advanced to Porto Seguro and Togo.
August 1914: Allied troops led by French General Joseph Gaudérique Aymerich occupied the capital Lomé in Togoland, a German colony.
August 1914: The heaviest battle in Togo took place on August 22, 1914 near the Chra River. Due to the demoralized mercenaries and porters, and lack of ammunition, the position had to be evacuated by the Germans the following day.
August 1914: French and British forces arrived at Kamina. The German commander then surrendered on August 26, 1914.
