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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME IV.' [107r] (218/540)
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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CAUCASUS SITUATION
171
While this correspondence was taking place, the withdrawal
from Kirkuk had been carried out, the first troops starting
back from there on the 11th May, leaving a small
mobile column as garrison ; and this withdrew also on the
24th. Before the final withdrawal, some 1,600 of the local
inhabitants who feared the return of the Turks were also
evacuated as refugees at their own request. At the end of the
month the advanced posts of the Illrd Corps in South Kur
distan were back at Tuz Khurmatli and Kifri.
The civil war in the Caucasus continued during May and
militated against our chances of stabilising the situation there
and of organising opposition to the enemy. Moreover, the
Germans to the north of the Black Sea were evidently moving
with a view to gaining control of the railway leading to Baku
from the north ; and the Turks continued to make progress,
though slowly, in Trans-Caucasia and towards Tabriz. It
was estimated that three Turkish regular divisions were
advancing eastward from a line running approximately from
Batum to Bayazid ; Turkish troops occupied Alexandropol
on the 18th May ; and at the end of the month it was reported
that Turkish troops were moving by rail from Alexandropol
to Tiflis. In the last week of May the fiction of any sort of
united action by the different elements in Trans-Caucasia was
dispelled by the formal dissolution of the Federal Government.
The Armenian National Council assumed charge of Armenian
affairs ; Georgia declared her independence ; and the Tartar
National Council, which temporarily controlled Tiflis and the
main railway, proclaimed a Republic of (Russian) Azerbaijan
and allowed two Turkish regular regiments to pass by rail
through Tiflis in order to assist the Tartars in their fighting
with the Armenians and Bolsheviks. The latter combination
had driven the Tartar forces out of Baku but had failed to
obtain possession of Elizabetopol.
The Turkish advance towards Tabriz seemed to be hanging
fire. It was estimated that this movement was being carried
out by one regular division advancing from the northward
and by parts of two divisions advancing on Urmia from Khoi
and from the west. Early in May Nuri
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
and several
Turkish officers appeared in Tabriz for a few days, announcing
themselves as part of the staff of a Turkish army on its way to
take over the Mahomedan regions of the Caucasus and to make
war on the Armenians. But the Turkish troops appeared to be
halted about Marand ; and reliable information was obtained
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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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