Battle of Lai

Battle of Laï

Part of the Kamerun Campaign in World War I

Date	21 August 1914
Location	Southern Chad Coordinates: 9°24′N 16°18′E / 9.400°N 16.300°E / 9.400; 16.300
Result	German victory

Belligerents

France

French Equatorial Africa

Germany

German Kamerun

Commanders and leaders

Captain Jeanjean

Captain Von Duhring

Casualties and losses

1 lieutenant and 13 soldiers Killed

11 Killed

Theatres of World War I

European Balkans Western Front Eastern Front Italian Front Middle Eastern Caucasus Persia Gallipoli Mesopotamia Sinai and Palestine Arab Revolt South Arabia African South-West Africa Togoland Cameroon East Africa North Africa Asian and Pacific theatre Naval theaters U-boat Atlantic Ocean Mediterranean

Kamerun Campaign

Tepe Lai 1st Garua Mora Nsanakong Ukoko Kusseri Jabassi 1st Edea 2nd Edea Gurin 1st Jaunde 2nd Garua Ngaundere Banjo 2nd Jaunde Naval operations Bussa uprising Adubi War

The Battle of Laï began on 21 August 1914 in Chad, during the First World War at the village of Laï, capital of the district of Logone, on the Logone River in the south.

A German column from Kamerun, led by Captain Von Duhring, attacked the village of Laï, defended by Captain Jeanjean. After a bitter fight, the French were driven out and the village was occupied by the Germans until 1 September 1914.

Sources

Malval, J.; Tubiana, M. J. (1974). Essai de chronologie tchadienne, 1707–1940 (in French). Paris: Éditions du Centre national de la recherche scientifique. ISBN 2-22201-625-8.
Moberly, F. J. (1931). Military Operations Togoland and the Cameroons 1914–1916. History of the Great War Based on Official Documents by Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence (Battery Press 1995 ed.). London: HMSO. ISBN 0-89839-235-7.

External links

Timeline, 1914

World War I

Home fronts

Theatres

European	Balkans Western Front Eastern Front Italian Front

Middle Eastern	Gallipoli Sinai and Palestine Caucasus Persia Mesopotamia South Arabia

African	South-West East Kamerun Togoland North

Asian and Pacific	Tsingtao German New Guinea and Samoa

At sea	Atlantic U-boat campaign Mediterranean North Sea Baltic Southern Hemisphere Cocos & Keeling Islands Coronel Falkland Islands Más a Tierra

Principal
participants
(people)

Entente powers	Armenia Brazil China French Empire Belgium British Empire Greece Italy Japan Montenegro Portugal Romania Russia Russian Empire Russian Republic Serbia Siam United States

Central Powers	Germany Austria-Hungary Ottoman Empire Bulgaria

Timeline

Pre-War conflicts	Scramble for Africa (1880–1914) Russo-Japanese War (1905) First Moroccan (Tangier) Crisis (1905–06) Agadir Crisis (1911) Italo-Turkish War (1911–12) French conquest of Morocco (1911–12) First Balkan War (1912–13) Second Balkan War (1913)

Prelude	Origins Sarajevo assassination Anti-Serb riots in Sarajevo July Crisis

Autumn 1914	Battle of the Frontiers Battle of Cer First Battle of the Marne Siege of Tsingtao Battle of Tannenberg Battle of Galicia Battle of the Masurian Lakes Battle of Kolubara Battle of Sarikamish Race to the Sea First Battle of Ypres

1915	Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes Second Battle of Ypres Battle of Gallipoli Battles of the Isonzo Great Retreat Second Battle of Champagne Kosovo Offensive Siege of Kut Battle of Loos

1916	Erzurum Offensive Battle of Verdun Lake Naroch Offensive Battle of Asiago Battle of Jutland Battle of the Somme Brusilov Offensive Baranovichi Offensive Battle of Romani Monastir Offensive Battle of Transylvania

1917	Capture of Baghdad First Battle of Gaza Second Battle of Arras Kerensky Offensive Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele) Battle of Mărășești Battle of Caporetto Southern Palestine Offensive Battle of Cambrai Armistice of Erzincan

1918	Operation Faustschlag Treaty of Brest-Litovsk Spring Offensive Second Battle of the Marne Battle of Baku Hundred Days Offensive Vardar Offensive Battle of Megiddo Third Transjordan attack Meuse-Argonne Offensive Battle of Vittorio Veneto Battle of Aleppo Armistice of Mudros Armistice of Villa Giusti Armistice with Germany

Other conflicts	Mexican Revolution (1910–20) Somaliland Campaign (1910–20) Libyan resistance movement (1911–43) Maritz Rebellion (1914–15) Zaian War (1914–21) Indo-German Conspiracy (1914–19) Senussi Campaign (1915–16) Volta-Bani War (1915–17) Easter Rising (1916) Anglo-Egyptian Darfur Expedition (1916) Kaocen Revolt (1916–17) Russian Revolution (1917) Finnish Civil War (1918)

Post-War conflicts	Russian Civil War (1917–21) Ukrainian–Soviet War (1917–21) Armenian–Azerbaijani War (1918–20) Georgian–Armenian War (1918) German Revolution (1918–19) Revolutions and interventions in Hungary (1918–20) Hungarian–Romanian War (1918–19) Greater Poland Uprising (1918–19) Estonian War of Independence (1918–20) Latvian War of Independence (1918–20) Lithuanian Wars of Independence (1918–20) Third Anglo-Afghan War (1919) Egyptian Revolution (1919) Polish–Ukrainian War (1918–19) Polish–Soviet War (1919–21) Irish War of Independence (1919–21) Turkish War of Independence Greco-Turkish War (1919–23) Turkish–Armenian War (1920) Iraqi revolt (1920) Polish–Lithuanian War (1920) Vlora War (1920) Franco-Syrian War (1920) Soviet–Georgian War (1921) Irish Civil War (1922–23)

Aspects

Opposition	Pacifism Anti-war movement

Deployment	Schlieffen Plan (German) Plan XVII (French)

Warfare	Military engagements Naval warfare Convoy system Air warfare Cryptography Horse use Poison gas Railways Strategic bombing Technology Trench warfare Total war Christmas truce Last surviving veterans

Civilian impact Atrocities Prisoners	Casualties Economic history 1918 flu pandemic Destruction of Kalisz The Rape of Belgium German occupation of Belgium German occupation of Luxembourg German occupation of northeastern France Ober Ost Ottoman people (Armenian Genocide, Assyrian genocide, Pontic Greek genocide) Blockade of Germany Women (Australia) Popular culture German prisoners of war in the United States

Agreements	Partitioning of the Ottoman Empire Sykes–Picot Agreement Agreement of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne French-Armenian Agreement Damascus Protocol Paris Peace Conference Venizelos–Tittoni agreement

Treaties	Treaty of Brest-Litovsk Treaty of Lausanne Treaty of London Treaty of Neuilly Treaty of St. Germain Treaty of Sèvres Treaty of Trianon Treaty of Versailles

Consequences	Aftermath "Fourteen Points" League of Nations World War I memorials Centenary (commemorations)

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