South West Africa campaign south, faced with certain destruction, surrendered. When the Germans provided lists of the names of approximately 2,200 troops under their command, Botha told the German delegation that he had been tricked, as he knew that the Germans had 15,000 men. Victor Franke, the German commander, replied, "If we had 15,000 men then you wouldn't be here and we wouldn't be in this position." Before an official declaration of war between Germany and Portugal (March 1916), German and Portuguese troops clashed several times on the border between German South West Africa and Portuguese Angola. The Germans won most of these clashes
Portuguese colonial exhibition and Príncipe, and Timor (Portuguese Timor). There were reproductions of villages from different colonies and of the Padrãos of Dighton and Yellala, along with a zoo, restaurants a theatre, a cinema which showed "'The Dawn Patrol" and an amusement park. It ran from 16 June to 30 Septemberand by the time it had closed there had been 1.5 million visitors. 'Portugal is Not a Small Country' map used to show how big Portuguese colonies were Portuguese colonial exhibition The Portuguese colonial exhibition was a world's fair held in Porto, Portugal in 1934 to display achievements of Portugal's colonies in Africa