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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME IV.' [31v] (67/540)
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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38 HISTORY OF THE WAR: MESOPOTAMIA
arrive at any definite conclusions in regard to
was imposs ble to ar ^ f n t e ntions. At the beginning of
the probable Turco ue r i Maude that there was no
the month it a PP®*[ e down th e Euphrates and that at
indication of a Turku attach more importance to his
that time the enemy seemed to attach mor^p continued t0
Nisibin-Mosul line of com t | K ,; r wa y to Mesopotamia
come in of remforcements temg onjheir in thc
and included persisten and even Bulgarian troops ;
offensive by German, d c [ear that large numbers
and by the mtddle of Au^t deemed Oem- ^
of motor lorries were g t, e i ow Mosul, as well as
Europe, some °^^° 0 ^^ d Tocomotives and much
motor ambulanc , > Taurus tunnel was not expected
st' r YiSS;
but General von Falkenhayn was said to have ordered that
strength in Mesopotamia of the Turkish Sixth Army amounted
to 2,280 sabres and 31.280 rifles* .and ^ sed
telegram to the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, he expressed
the opinion that the enemy’s plan would include an enveloping
movement, in which he would push forward through the Jaba
Hamrin and down the Euphrates. Among the re^ons^hic
led him to this conclusion were the reports of great activity in
road-making between Mosul, Kirkuk and Kifn and the fac t
that the Turks, who had previously occ “P led £ lz /k R R^i an s
Oasr-i-Shirin on the evacuation of these places by the Russians,
were also holding Shahraban and Mandah with small detach
ments, which might be the advanced portions of a large fore
or might be with a view to obtaining supplies from those areas.f
There had, hitherto, been little definite mention m the reports
received of preparations on the Euphrates line, but m the latter
half of August these tended to increase and from a captureci
document it was ascertained that, in June, the Gei p^ ns
carried out a reconnaissance of routes between Hit and Karbala.
Referring to this and to other information recently received
the Chief of the Imperial General Staff telegraphed to G«ieral
Maude on the 30th August that it was probable that the lurks
alight be planning operations on the Euphrates on a larg er
* Appendix XLI gives a comparison of his detailed estimate with an order
of battle of this army taken from the Turkish account.
t From Turkish accounts it appears that they were in special need ol ta
supplies from the Mandali area.
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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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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:2v, 4r:186v, 188r:255v, back-i
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