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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME II.' [84v] (175/660)
The record is made up of 1 volume (323 folios). It was created in 1924. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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140 HISTORY OF THE WAR : MESOPOTAMIA
position was receiving his greatest attention, and that he and
General Townshend were in constant communication with one
another in regard to it.
To return to the general policy of His Majesty’s
Government. On the 1st December General Nixon protested
against a request by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, in
London, for the immediate despatch of five hundred to a
thousand troops to protect their property against attacks
said to be imminent by Germans, as he said that local
intelligence indicated no such danger. The Secretary of State,
answering this telegram on the 3rd, quoted the opinion of
the managing director of the company, who had a thorough
knowledge of Arabistan, and of the Admiralty representative,
in regard to the danger to the oilfields and the oil supply,
as being of considerable importance, but he said that the oil
company had been told to instruct their local representatives
to communicate direct with General Nixon in future.
On the 3rd December the Viceroy answered the Secretary
of State’s telegram of the 30th November in regard to the
defence of India. The position in India, said Lord Hardinge,
depended largely on what happened in Mesopotamia. If,
with the reinforcements from France, General Nixon was
able to drive back the Turks and occupy Baghdad indepen
dently of the 34th and 35th Brigades and could return these to
India, then they would probably be strong enough in India,
though even so they would wish that all the Territorial troops
in India, as well as the Regulars on the frontier, should be
filled up by drafts to their proper establishment. If affairs
in Mesopotamia went seriously wrong the position in India
would deteriorate and they might have to ask for assistance.
If Afghanistan joined in against us, our situation would be
critical. But Lord Hardinge hoped that it would not be
necessary to ask for assistance.
On the same day the Viceroy sent another telegram to the
Secretary of State stating that the Commander-in-Chief was
most anxious for an early Russian advance on Hamadan, and,
if possible, on Kermanshah. He pointed out how this would
threaten the Turkish communications down the Tigris, sever
German communications between Persia and Turkey, and would
gain time for General Nixon to move up reinforcements.*
* On the 9th December General Nixon also telegraphed urging that the
Russians be asked to march on Baghdad. Representations had already been
made by H.M. Government to Petrograd, but the Russian Government
stated that they had not sufficient troops to comply. This information was
sent to General Nixon on the 11th.
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The volume is the second volume of an official government publication compiled at the request of the Government of India, and under the direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence, by Brigadier-General Frederick James Moberly. The volume was printed and published at His Majesty's Stationery Office, London.
The contents provide a narrative of the operations of 1914-1918 in Mesopotamia, based mainly on official documents.
The volume is in one part, entitled, 'Part III. The First Campaign for Baghdad', and consists of the following fourteen chapters:
- The Decision to Advance to Baghdad
- Commencement of the Advance Towards Baghdad
- The Battle of Ctesiphon - the First Day's Operations
- Battle of Ctesiphon (Continued) and the British Retirement to Kut
- The Decision to Hold Kut and British Policy Consequent on the Failure to Reach Baghdad
- The Siege of Kut: First Phase (December 1915)
- Commencement of the Relief Operations
- The Action of Shaikh Saad
- The Action of the Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. and the First Attack on Hanna
- Operations up to the End of February, 1916
- The Second Attempt to Relieve Kut; the Attack on the Dujaila Redoubt
- The Third Attempt to Relieve Kut; the Successful Advance to and First and Second Attacks on Sannaiyat
- The Last Attempt at Relief; Bait Isa and Sannaiyat
- The Siege of Kut; the Last Stages
The volume also includes nine maps, entitled:
- The Middle East
- Lower Mesopotamia
- Map 8 - The Tigris from Kut al Amara to Baghdad
- Map 9 - The Battle of Ctesiphon
- Map 10 - The affair of Umm at Tubul
- Map 11 - The defence of Kut al Amara
- Map 12 - The fort at Kut; with special reference to the Turkish attack on 24th December 1915
- Map 13 - River Tigris between Ali Gharbi and Shumran
- Map 14 - The action at Shaikh Saad
- Map 15 - The action of the Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
- Map 16 - The first attack on Hanna; 21st January 1916
- Map 17 - The attack on the Dujaila Redoubt, 8th March 1916
- Map 18 - To illustrate Tigris Corps Operation Order No. 26, dated 6th March 1916
- Map 19 - To illustrate operations between 10th March and end of April 1916
- Map 20 - The action of Bait Isa on 17th and 18th April 1916, and the attack on Sannaiyat 22nd April 1916
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (323 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume contains a list of contents (folios 6-10), a list of maps and illustrations (folio 11), appendices (folios 254-290), an index (folios 291-312), and eleven maps in a pocket attached to the inside back cover (folios 314-324).
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 325; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
Pagination: the volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:3r, 3r, 4r:70v, 72r:79r, 160v, 80r:102v, 104r:160r, 161r, 313v, 161v:281v, 283r:313v, back-i
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