Maziua raid
| Maziua raid | |||||||
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| Part of the East African Campaign (World War I) | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Wolfgang Weck | Eduardo Costa † | ||||||
| Units involved | |||||||
| Schutztruppe detachment | Niassa Company police detachment | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| Unknown | 10–13 killed | ||||||
The Maziua raid was an armed clash between German and Portuguese colonial troops in Mozambique on 24 August 1914 during World War I. Though the two countries were officially at peace, German soldiers carried out a cross-border raid into Portuguese Mozambique for unclear reasons, and destroyed the outpost of Maziua. The Portuguese soldiers killed in the raid were the first Portuguese casualties of World War I.