12 February 1916: The Battle of Salaita Hill—a British & Imperial offensive, under the command of (later Field Marshal) Jan Smuts, into German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) was thwarted in the vicinity of Kilimanjaro; both sides supplemented their artillery with cannon salvaged from ships sunk off the now-Tanzanian coast in the first year of the war.
Lest we forget.
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