Qualla: Battle of Bukoba https://qualla.com/battle-of-bukoba en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:26 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Battle of Bukoba https://qualla.com/battle-of-bukoba Battle of Bukoba: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-bukoba/ Frederick Selous was 63 years old when he stepped onto the boats at Kisumu in June 1915. One of the most famous big-game hunters in the British Empire, Selous had spent decades tracking lions and elephants across southern Africa. Now he was tracking Germans. He had enlisted in the 25th (Frontiersmen) Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers, a unit so eccentric it seemed drawn from fiction -- assembled from hunters, adventurers, and colonial misfits by Colonel Daniel Patrick Driscoll, a veteran of the Second Boer War who wanted fighters comfortable in the bush. On 21 June, this improbable battalion set out across Lake Victoria to attack the German wireless station at Bukoba.

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