• The Tanganyika Rifles was the sole regiment in the Tanganyikan army, from 1961 to 1964. With the independence of Tanganyika in December 1961, the two...
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  • 2020. Tanganyika Rifles Mutiny 1993, pp. 19–20. Tanganyika Rifles Mutiny 1993, pp. 20, 25. Tanganyika Rifles Mutiny 1993, p. 26. Tanganyika Rifles Mutiny...
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    Uganda Rifles (later formed basis of the Ugandan Army) 5th Battalion – 5th Battalion, Kenya Rifles 6th Battalion – 1st Battalion, Tanganyika Rifles 11th...
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  • military officer. Born in British Tanganyika to a white father and black mother, he enlisted in the King's African Rifles in 1957 after finishing school...
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    officers. Army mutinies in Tanganyika and Uganda in January 1964 set the stage for the unrest that took place within the Kenya Rifles. Faced with many of the...
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  • diplomat. Mayunga served in the Tanganyika Rifles as a second lieutenant and was stationed in Lugalo. During the Tanganyika Rifles mutiny of January 1964 he...
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    Oscar Kambona, the Foreign Affairs Minister of Tanganyika, and that former members of the Tanganyika Rifles had been made available to assist with the revolution...
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    Mutinies by the Tanganyika Rifles and the Uganda Rifles in January 1964 set the stage for the unrest that took place within the Kenya Rifles. Faced with many...
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    1964, following a mutiny by the former colonial military force, the Tanganyika Rifles. From its inception, it was ingrained in the troops of the new TPDF...
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  • British colonial era as a camp for the King's African Rifles (KAR), after the seizure of Tanganyika – German East Africa – from Germany during the First...
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    Other than the Tanganyika Rifles (formerly the colonial King's African Rifles), the police were the only armed force in Tanganyika, and on 20 January...
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  • African Rifles as a private in 1958; and later attended the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. During the mutiny within the newly form Tanganyika Rifles in...
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    carrier and a helicopter assault ship during the suppression of the Tanganyika Rifles in 1964. She decommissioned for the last time on 27 September 1965...
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  • was formed out of the union of the much larger mainland territory of Tanganyika and the coastal archipelago of Zanzibar. The former was a colony and part...
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    Economic Developments in the Republic of the Congo 1961, p. 99. Tanganyika Rifles Mutiny 1993, p. 37. Boulden, Jane (2001). Peace Enforcement: The United...
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    first year of Tanganyika's independence, but now distinctly as Queen of Tanganyika, represented by the governor general.: page 6  Tanganyika also joined...
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    broke out on 12 January 1964. A week later, two battalions of the Tanganyika Rifles mutinied on 19-20 January 1964. When the Tanganyikan soldiers rose...
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    African Rifles 36th (Tanganyika) Battalion, King's African Rifles 44th (Uganda) Battalion, King's African Rifles 1st Battalion, Rhodesian African Rifles (later...
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    Julius Nyerere (category Tanganyika African National Union politicians)
    anti-colonial activist, politician and political theorist. He governed Tanganyika as prime minister from 1961 to 1962 and then as president from 1962 to...
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    African state of Tanganyika after the 1st and 2nd Tanganyika Rifles mutinied against the British officers and NCOs who, despite Tanganyika being independent...
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  • Radfan region of Aden. In January 1964, a mutiny occurred in Tanganyika. The 1st Tanganyika Rifles, who were based near the capital Dar-es-Salaam, had mutinied...
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    Mounted Rifles was envisaged as a regiment-sized mobile unit intended to strike against German forces threatening to invade from Tanganyika. It was intended...
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  • operation to deploy 45 Commando in Dar es Salaam where the 1st Battalion Tanganyika Rifles had staged a mutiny. He became Director of Naval Operations at the...
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  • William Unek (category 1957 in Tanganyika)
    tribesmen, police, and eventually a company of the King's African Rifles in Tanganyika's greatest manhunt up to that time. Despite the extensive search operation...
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    Rawtenstall, Lancashire About 700 members of the 1st Battalion of the Tanganyika Rifles mutinied against their white British Army officers and briefly took...
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    East Africa, as part of the operation to quell the mutiny by the Tanganyika Rifles. The destroyer operated as part of a force, along with the aircraft...
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    The Rhodesian African Rifles (RAR) was a regiment of the Rhodesian Army. The ranks of the RAR were recruited from the black African population, although...
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    (DOC). United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction. Tanganyika Rifles Mutiny: January 1964. Dar es Salaam University Press. 1993. p. 21...
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  • Ally Sykes (category Tanganyika African National Union politicians)
    of the Tanganyika African National Union. Ally was born on 10 October 1926 in Dar es Salaam to Kleist Sykes during the British rule of Tanganyika. He served...
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    Edward Twining (category Governors of Tanganyika (territory))
    a British diplomat, formerly Governor of North Borneo and Governor of Tanganyika. He was a member of the Twining tea family. In 1960 he published a book...
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