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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME IV.' [28v] (61/540)
The record is made up of 1 volume (266 folios). It was created in 1927. 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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CHAPTER XXXVIII.
AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER 1917 ; THE CAPTURE OF RAMADI.
(MAPS MESOPOTAMIA AND 34.)
T HE proposal that General Maude should advance up the
'pjprj-jg jn co-operation with an advance on Mosul by the
Russians did not commend itself to the Commander-in-Chief in
India, where a close consideration of the project by his General
Staff led to the following conclusions. The only remaining
objective of any value in Mesopotamia was Mosul and its
distance from our own front in that theatre and from the
Turks in Syria militated against effective co-operation between
General Maude’s and General Allenby’s forces ; while the
value of Mosul itself depended mainly on sustained Russian
action to the north of Lake Van. Reports showed that at the
best any Russian action there would be delayed, and the recent
failure of Brusiloff’s offensive in Europe strengthened the
feeling that we could place no reliance on Russian co-operation.
Consequently an advance by us up the Tigris might place us in
a dangerous situation, especially if, as appeared possible from
recent reports, Falkenhayn was planning an advance down the
Euphrates. Moreover, it seemed that General Maude’s estimate
of his ability to supply a Russian force, practically equivalent
to a division, in addition to his own force was too optimistic,
having regard to the increasing distance by road of the Russians
from railhead, the time it would take to extend the railway
northward from Samarra and the receptive capacity of the
port of Basra.
The Commander-in-Chief telegraphed briefly to the Chief
of the Imperial General Staff in the above terms on the 1st
August and concluded by saying that he considered that our
proper course for the time being was to secure our hold on the
Baghdad vilayet, and improve our port facilities at Basra and
our transport and communications, so as to be in a position to
demonstrate in support of a British offensive in Palestine, or
to take advantage of any Turkish mistakes or a real revival on
the part of the Russians.
The Chief of the Imperial General Staff replied on the 2nd
August. He agreed that effective co-operation by the Russians
could not be relied upon, but he could not say this to Brusiloff,
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The volume is the fourth 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 V. The Campaign in Upper Mesopotamia, 1917-1918 - North-West Persia and the Caspian, 1918', and consists of the following ten chapters:
- May, June and July 1917
- August and September 1917: The Capture of Ramadi
- October to December 1917 - Occupation of the Jabal Hamrin, Action of Tikrit and Death of General Maude
- January to March 1918: Dunsterville's Mission and the Action of Khan Baghdadi
- April and May 1918: Operations in Kurdistan and Arrangements to Counter the Turco-German Threat beyond our Northern Flank
- British Plans to Stop the Enemy's Advance into Persia and to Obtain Control of the Caspian
- The Fall of Baku
- British Advance up the Tigris: Actions of Fat-Ha Gorge and on the Little Zab
- The Battle of Sharqat and the Armistice
- Conclusion
The volume also includes fourteen maps, entitled:
- The Middle East
- Mesopotamia
- Map 34 - Operations near Ramadi: July and September 1917
- Map 35 - Operations in the Jabal Hamrin: October and December 1917
- Map 36 - Actions at Daur and Tikrit: 2nd and 5th November 1917
- Map 37 - Operations on the Euphrates line: March 1918
- Map 38 - Action of Khan Baghdadi: 26th March 1918
- Map 39 - Operations in the Kifri-Kirkuk area: April and May 1918
- Map 40 - The Cavalry affair of the 27th April 1918, and the action of Tuz Khurmatli, 29th April 1918
- Map 41 - Operations of "Dunsterforce", 1918
- Map 42 - Operations at Baku, August-September 1918
- Map 43 - Operations on the Tigris: 18th-30th October 1918
- Map 44 - Action by 7th Cavalry Brigade near Hadraniya: 29th October 1918
- Map 45 - Battle of Sharqat, 29th October 1918
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- 1 volume (266 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume contains a preface (folios 5-6), a chronological summary of the campaign in Mesopotamia (folios 7-8), a list of contents (folios 8-11), a list of maps and illustrations (folios 11-12), appendices (folios 197-232), an index (folios 233-254), and twelve maps in a pocket attached to the inside back cover (folios 256-267).
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 268; 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 file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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