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    Lieutenant General Charles Tombeur, 1st Baron of Tabora (4 May 1867 – 2 December 1947) was a Belgian military officer and colonial civil servant. As well...
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    1916 the Belgian commander of the Force Publique, Lieutenant-General Charles Tombeur, had assembled an army of 15,000 men supported by local bearers and...
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    Tabora in September 1916, by a force under the command of General Charles Tombeur. In Belgium, after four years of war, as of 26 May 1918, the army had...
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    started its campaign on 18 April 1916 under the command of General Charles Tombeur, Colonel Philippe Molitor and Colonel Frederik-Valdemar Olsen and captured...
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    Belgian Army Gérard Leman – general commanding the defense of Liège Charles Tombeur – commander of the colonial Force Publique in the East African theatre...
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    marched into Tabora in September 1916 under the command of General Charles Tombeur after heavy fighting. After 1918, Belgium was rewarded for the participation...
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    Publique advanced between Kigali and Nyanza under the command of General Charles Tombeur, Colonel Molitor and Colonel Olsen and captured Kigali on 6 May. The...
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    1916 British forces under General Jan Smuts and the Belgians under Charles Tombeur launched an offensive with 45,000 men near Tabora. Lettow-Vorbeck used...
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    (1917–1919) Gérard Leman – General commanding the defense of Liège Charles Tombeur – Commander of the colonial Force Publique in the East African theater...
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    supplies in the Neu Langenburg area. As early as March 1915, General Charles Tombeur asked the Belgian government for a small fleet, a submarine and seaplanes...
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