windhoek

Updated: January 10, 2026

Fortunately, perhaps, the Germans began hostilities by raiding the frontiers of Cape Colony, and on 18 September the British retaliated by seizing Luderitz Bay, which, like their other port, Swakopmund, the Germans had abandoned to concentrate at their inland capital, Windhoek.

A. F. (Albert Frederick) Pollard - A Short History of the Great War