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Monument erected by the Germans after the battle
Lugalo is a village in Tanzania near Iringa which in 1891 was the site of a battle in which a German colonial military force under Emil von Zelewski was decisively defeated and almost annihilated by the Hehe army of Chief Mkwawa.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> This was the first major defeat for the German Schutztruppe and the beginning of the Hehe wars.
A German monument marks the site next to the modern TANZAM highway.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>