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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME IV.' [66v] (137/540)
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 XL.
JANUARY TO MARCH 1918: DUNSTERVILLE ’s MISSION AND
THE ACTION OF KHAN BAGHDADI.
(MAPS 37, 38 AND 41.)
A T the beginning of 1918, the imminence of a separate
Russian peace, Bolshevik and enemy propaganda the
relaxation of discipline, individual fears for the safety or
welfare of their homes and other factors were daily hastening
the disintegration of the various Russian armies. The Caucasus-
Persian front from Trebizond to Kermanshah was still held by
apparently about 100,000 to 150,000 Russian troops, but it
was clear that we could not rely much longer on their providing
an effective barrier to hostile penetration eastwards. Such
penetration would threaten our flank and communications in
Mesopotamia, would give the enemy control of the mineral
oil, gram and cotton resources of the Caucasus and Caspian
areas and would afford him an opportunity for carrying the war
through Persia and Afghanistan against our frontiers in India.
As a result of the Russian revolution, the general unrest
caused by the world-war, Pan-Turanian designs, Pan-Islamic
doctrine,* * enemy propaganda and other varying factors
there were indications of instability among all the Mahomedan
races from the Caucasus to the borders of Chinese Turkestan
and also throughout Persia. In Russian territory there
seemed to be a movement among them for a certain measure
of autonomy; and in Persia the extremist politicians were
damounng for the cessation of all foreign intervention and
withdrawal of all foreign troops. These ideas were all the
more disquieting as in no case had the peoples concerned the
power or capacity either to gain what they desired, to protect
hemselyes or to maintain real neutrality. Moreover, enemy
ugents, increased in number by the release in Russian territory
oi thousands of enemy prisoners of war, were seizing the occasion
° n ant ^ Bnt l? a ^ ltatlon and for organising hostile activity.
On the other hand, the general situation of the various
nr is armies would scarcely permit their undertaking any
serious res commitment. General Allenby's offensive in
Was ma ^ mg CaIls on their Fourth « Seventh and
m ^ ^ ea ^ re > which were evidently only being
e a e expense of their Sixth Arm y in Mesopotamia and
* See Vol. I, pp. 19-20, for a brief account of these movements.
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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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