Mimi and Toutou Go Forth
At the start of World War One, German warships controlled Lake Tanganyika in Central Africa. The British had no naval craft at all upon ''Tanganjikasee'', as the Germans called it. This mattered: it was the longest lake in the world and of great strategic advantage. In June 1915, a force of 28 men was despatched from Britain on a vast journey. Their orders were to take control of the lake. To reac...
At the start of World War One, German warships controlled Lake Tanganyika in Central Africa. The British had no naval craft at all upon ''Tanganjikasee'', as the Germans called it. This mattered: it was the longest lake in the world and of great strategic advantage. In June 1915, a force of 28 men was despatched from Britain on a vast journey. Their orders were to take control of the lake. To reac...
