Battle of Sandfontein

Name: Battle of Sandfontein
Start: 1914

1914 CE.

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The Battle of Sandfontein was fought between the Union Defence Force of South Africa and the German Empire on 26 September 1914 at Sandfontein, during the first stage of the South West Africa Campaign of World War I. It ended in a German victory.

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