Daily Quiz for March 23, 2012

Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck. He was able to divert about 300,000 British, Portuguese, and Belgian troops from other theaters. His force was highly dependent on the manual labor of Africans. Its strength never exceeded 14,000, with only a quarter of that made up of Germans. Fighting without supply lines, he harassed opponents’ supply, communications, and railway lines for four years and instilled a fear in the local population disproportionate to his army’s size.