Mora is a town in
northern Cameroon
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. Mora has a population of 55,216 making it the 5th biggest city in Far North.
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fort of Mora was the last German fort in Cameroon to surrender during World War I
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. After a long time under siege
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, Captain Ernst von Raben and his men surrendered to the allied forces on February 20, 1916, over a year after the rest of the German army withdrew out of Cameroon. Many German troops escaped to the neutral Spanish colony of Río Muni
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Gallery
File:Hotel de ville de Mora.jpg, Mora City hall
File:Colonial Office Collection Q32958.jpg, Exterior of German Fort near Mora, 1916.
File:Case d'habitation à Mora.jpg, Case d'habitation
File:Lycée Bilingue de Mora, Cameroun.jpg, Mora Bilingual High School
File:Massif de Mora - Mont Mandara.jpg, Mandara Mountains view from Mora
File:Massif de Mora Mont Mandara.jpg, Rocky mountains in Mora
File:Hicking in Mora.jpg, Hicking in Mora
File:Festival culturel, 28.12.2010 075.jpg, Podoko warriors (Mora)
File:Cases d'habitation à Mora.jpg, A hut in Mora
References
* Damis, Fritz. ''Auf Dem Moraberge – Erinnerungen an Die Kämpfe Der 3. Kompagnie Der Ehemaligen Kaiserlichen Schutztruppe Für Kamerun.'' 1929. Berlin. ''German soldiers' collective account of the siege''
* Dane, Edmund. ''British Campaigns in Africa and the Pacific, 1914-1918'',. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1919.
* Dornseif, Golf. ''Kameruner Endkampf Um Die Festung Moraberg.'' 2 June 2010. Web.
* Farwell, Byron.The Great War in Africa. W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York, 1986.
* Fecitte, Harry. ''Lake Chad Area: 1914.'' Harry's Africa – The Soldier's Burden. Web.
* Henry, Helga Bender. Cameroon on a Clear Day. Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library, 1999.
* O'Neill, Herbert C. ''The War in Africa and the Far East.'' London: London Longmans Green, 1918.
* Robinson, Dan. Publication. Mandaras Publishing, 2010. Web.
* Strachan, Hew. ''The First World War''. Vol. I: To Arms. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
* Strachan, Hew. ''The First World War in Africa''. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004
Communes of Far North Region (Cameroon)
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