Tag: Guerrillas of Tsavo

• Exploring the Battlefields of Taita Taveta

  

  Before dawn on the 15th of August 1914, a column of 200 soldiers of the German Schutztruppe marched into the Taveta township and exchanged fire with a British East African Police Border Detachment. The corporal in charge of the police post, Murimi Mwiti, was killed as he resisted the German advance, becoming the first of…

  Jan Fox

  21/10/2018

  Events, Travel

  Battlefield Safaris, Battlefield Tourism, East African Campaign, First World War, Guerrillas of Tsavo, James G Willson, Sarova Hotels, Sarova Salt Lick Game Lodge, Sarova Taita Hills Game Lodge, SGR, Taita Hills, Taita Taveta County, Voi, WW1