| 词条 | Battle of Kibata |
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|conflict=Battle of Kibata |partof=East African Campaign |image={{Location map many | Tanzania | width = 260 | float = right | label = Kibata | pos = right | marksize = 8 | lat_deg = -8.466667 | lon_deg = 38.983333 }} |caption= |date=14 October 1916 – 6 January 1917 |place=Kibata, German East Africa |casus= |territory= |result=British victory German withdraw |combatant1={{flag|German Empire}}
|combatant2={{flagicon|United Kingdom}} British Empire
|commander1={{flagicon|German Empire}} Gen.Paul Erich von Lettow-Vorbeck |commander2={{flagicon|Union of South Africa|1912}} Lt. GenJan Smuts{{flagicon|United Kingdom}} Brig.Gen.Henry de Courcy O'Grady |strength1=Unknown |strength2=Unknown |casualties1= |casualties2= |notes= }}{{Campaignbox East African (World War I)}} The Battle of Kibata was fought north-west from Kilwa during the East African Campaign of World War I. The British theatre commander, South African General Jan Smuts, planned to seize Kibata and prevent German forces from withdrawing southwards. BattleOn the 14th October, Kibata was reached and the empty fort seized; Germans had withdrawn to the hills. On the 6th December, main German troops led by Lettow-Vorbeck advanced on Kibata. British forces were driven out from they outposts to two redoubts on Picquet hill, north from Kibata. The German guns (One recovered from the sunken light cruiser {{SMS|Königsberg|1905|6}} ) opened up a bombardment against the two British held redoubts. Later German field companies attacked the redoubts but they were repulsed by the British defenders. One of the German companies dug itself in on the western slope of Picquet Hill. This German position was named the Lodgement. By then the British forces, Baluchis from India and KAR from Nyasaland (modern-day Malawi),were well dug-in on a series of low hills near Kibata, but German troops with heavy artillery were occupying a surrounding ring of higher hills. The recent recruits became used to the shelling and they quickly adapted to trench warfare. The battle was raging which was more akin to the battlefield in Europe than in the African bush. On the night of the 15th December, British forces attacked the Lodgement German position near British redoubts. The British soldiers in this attack used Mills bombs for the first time in East Africa. The Germans fell back and the Lodgement was occupied by soldiers from the King's African Rifles, supported by a section of Loyal North Lancashire machine gunners.[1] On the 1st January 1917, two 5-inch howitzers of 14th Howitzer Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery, had arrived at Kibata,[2][3] which signalled the end of German hopes of destroying the British garrison. AftermathA few days later, Germans withdrew six of nine field companies from the Kibata area to north to meet General Smuts main British troops which was fighting for crossings over the Rufiji River. On 6 January, Brigadier General O'Grady ordered a general advance and the KAR Askari quickly took the hill crests previously occupied by the Germans. References1. ^Anderson, pp. 166–9. 2. ^Drake, pp. 197–8. 3. ^Farndale, pp. 333–5. Sources
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