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The African front comprised a series of conflicts, schemes, maneuvers, heroics, disasters, inhospitable climate and geography, and insects--as the Allies sought to conquer four German colonies.
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Great Britain declared was on Germany on 5 August 1914, but it was not until seven o'clock on the morning of 22 August that Corporal Ernest Thomas of 'C' Squadron, 4th Royal Irish Dragon Guards, riding with a mounted patrol near the village of Casteau, Belgium, fired the British Expeditionary Force's first shot of the war.
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