113: Simpson’s Circus

Kigoma harbor on Lake Tanganyika in German East Africa, shortly before the war.

 
Once German East Africa proved to be more difficult to subdue than originally thought, the British seek to wrest control of Lake Tanganyika from the Germans as a first step.
 
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Fanfare

Opening War Theme

Overture to Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman)
Composed by Richard Wagner in 1840. Public domain.
Performed by The University of Chicago Orchestra, and used pursuant to a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. Source.

Closing War Theme

 

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