Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "The Battle of Chra was fought by British and French troops against German soldiers and paramilitary police in the village of Chra, near the Chra river on 22 August 1914, during the Togoland Campaign of the First World War. The German defenders mined the approaches to the river, blew the bridges and dug in around the village on the far bank, ready to defend the crossing with rifles and three concealed machine-guns. The British-French attack was repulsed and then a German counter-attack was ordered but many of the troops refused the order and the attack was not delivered.The Germans retired overnight to Kamina due to apprehension that other British and French troops would cut off the Germans retreat and overestimation of the number of their opponents. The invaders paused for two days then began to advance on Kamina and were met at Glei on 25 August by two Germans who offered terms of surrender. Unconditional surrender was demanded by the British commander which was accepted by the Germans the next day and hostilities ceased. The colony was administered jointly for the duration of the war by the French and British; after the war Togoland was partitioned. The western part of Togoland administered by the British, joined Ghana in 1957 and French Togoland became independent as Togo in 1960."@en }
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- Battle_of_Chra abstract "The Battle of Chra was fought by British and French troops against German soldiers and paramilitary police in the village of Chra, near the Chra river on 22 August 1914, during the Togoland Campaign of the First World War. The German defenders mined the approaches to the river, blew the bridges and dug in around the village on the far bank, ready to defend the crossing with rifles and three concealed machine-guns. The British-French attack was repulsed and then a German counter-attack was ordered but many of the troops refused the order and the attack was not delivered.The Germans retired overnight to Kamina due to apprehension that other British and French troops would cut off the Germans retreat and overestimation of the number of their opponents. The invaders paused for two days then began to advance on Kamina and were met at Glei on 25 August by two Germans who offered terms of surrender. Unconditional surrender was demanded by the British commander which was accepted by the Germans the next day and hostilities ceased. The colony was administered jointly for the duration of the war by the French and British; after the war Togoland was partitioned. The western part of Togoland administered by the British, joined Ghana in 1957 and French Togoland became independent as Togo in 1960.".