campaign, First World War

Maconde campaign

Name: Maconde campaign
Location: Mueda Plateau, Mozambique

Maconde campaign was a campaign fought in 1917 at Mueda Plateau, in what is now Mozambique. Its exact site is not recorded; the atlas places it at Mueda Plateau. It was part of Portuguese campaigns of pacification and occupation, which ran from 1880 to 1920. The recorded result: Portuguese victory. Recorded strength: 2100 Makua soldiers against Unknown.

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Fought1917

WhereMueda Plateau, Mozambique11.400S, 39.330E, placed at the location, approximate

OutcomePortuguese victory

BelligerentsPortuguese RepublicagainstMakonde tribes

Part ofPortuguese campaigns of pacification and occupation1880 to 1920

Where it sits in Portuguese campaigns of pacification and occupation

8 placed engagements of Portuguese campaigns of pacification and occupation in time order; taller ticks are more widely documented. Each tick is a link.

Record

Date	1917 (year precision) to 1917
Place	Mueda Plateau, Mozambique 11.400S, 39.330E
Kind	Campaign, First World War
Strength	2100 Makua soldiers	Unknown

Placed at Mueda Plateau; the exact site is not recorded. with the nearest other engagements in the atlas. Present-day coastlines, rivers and borders; towns from Natural Earth.

Nearest engagements

Battle of Ngomano 1917, 91 km W
Battle of Mahiwa 1917, 117 km N
Battle of Narungombe 1917, 250 km N
Battle of Kibata 1916, 272 km N
Maziua raid 1914, 280 km W

In the same war

Before: Battle of Mongua 17 August 1915
All 8 engagements of Portuguese campaigns of pacification and occupation

Elsewhere in 1917

Maconde campaign is one of 4,429 engagements of the 20th century in the atlas and one of 24 in present-day Mozambique.

Sources

Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q135469447, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Mueda campaign, revision 1370628825, read 2026-11-15, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.