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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME IV.' [75v] (155/540)
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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118 HISTORY OF THE WAR : MESOPOTAMIA
neighbouring states and possibly Germany to intervene
Georgia had claims to Batum; the Armenians regarded
Ardahan and Kars as theirs ; and the Tartars alone favoured
the treaty. The Georgians, however, were unlikely to offer
military opposition to Turkey and the Armenians could not
hope to make an effective resistance. It was indeed the
general impression that the Trans-Caucasus Government was
likely to conclude peace with Turkey. Consequently the
apparent intention of the Turks to occupy the portion of the
Caucasus inhabited by Mahomedans and to exterminate the
Armenian population seemed to stand a very good chance of
success.* In point of fact, as was subsequently ascertained
Furco-German rivalry in regard to the Caucasus was likely to
be the only deterrent. The Germans occupied Odessa on the
13th March and the Turks became alarmed at the German
preparations to open the direct European route to the Caucasus
The Caspian, including the ports of Petrovsk, Baku, Enzeli
and Krasnovodsk, was under Bolshevik control; and under
the instigation of enemy or Bolshevik agents, the Tangalis
had arrested the British consul at Resht and were about to
occupy Kazvin, in co-operation with a force of Persian
nationalists. Consequently all communications between Persia
and the Caucasus were interrupted. The local situation in
Kermanshah had improved somewhat, but elsewhere in North-
Uest Persia it gave cause for anxiety; and the Persian
Government was adopting an attitude which would endanger
not only their own country but our position in Afghanistan
and India. H.M. Government, reluctantly forced to the
conclusion that they must make themselves responsible for
measures against the common danger which the Persian
Government were unable or unwilling to adopt, decided to
despatch a sufficient force to patrol and keep open the road
from Khamqin to the east. The point to which this force
advanced would depend upon the steadying influence which
its ^ re ^ ei ? ce ex( T tec ! an d upon the degree of authority
exercised by the Persian Government.
On the Jth March, the Chief of the Imperial General Staff
e egrap e to General Marshall that, if we were to open
communication with the Caucasus, it was very important to
ge roops o Kermanshah as soon as possible. He suggested
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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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