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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME IV.' [125v] (255/540)
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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200 HISTORY OF THE WAR : MESOPOTAMIA
Germans, after taking Baku, intended to traverse Trans-Caspia
and Turkestan and raise Afghanistan against us.
The officer's general impression was that the situation was
critical and could only be saved by the prompt appearance
at Baku of British forces.
On the 20th July, about 2,500 Jangalis, assisted by some
Germans and Austrians, the whole under command of a German
(von Passchen), attacked the British detachment at Resht, a
town with a seven-mile perimeter surrounded by thick jungle.
The British detachment, under command of Lieutenant-Colonel
Matthews, consisted of about 300 rifles l/4th Hampshire,
150 rifles l/2nd Gurkhas, two mountain guns and two armoured
cars, its main body being encamped outside the town. It also
had a party of twenty rifles holding the British Consulate in
the town and another small party holding the Bank. The
main assault fell on our camp outside the town, but although
the enemy made several attacks they were all unsuccessful.
When the enemy finally desisted he left over 100 of his dead
on the ground and 50 prisoners, including several Austrians,
in our hands.
In the meantime, however, a large body of the enemy had
penetrated into the town and attacked the British Consulate.
This was surrounded and overlooked by houses and could
only be reached from our camp, without a long detour outside
the town, through a maze of narrow and tortuous streets.
Colonel Matthews, learning early in the morning of the attack
on the Consulate, decided to effect its rehef by the direct route
and despatched a party (under Captain McCleverty) of the
l/2nd Gurkhas with an armoured car to do so. This party,
skilfully handled and after a good deal of street fighting,
succeeded in reaching the Consulate just in time and in bringing
off its personnel and garrison.
Our total casuahties during the day were 51, and our success
would have been more decisive if it had been possible to follow
the enemy in pursuit. But this was prohibited by the thick
jungle, the small number of our troops and the fact that a
considerable body of the enemy was still at dusk in possession
of a great part of the town. H
During the next two days, our troops, assisted by two
aeroplanes from Kazvin, were occupied in a good deal of street
fighting. But “ by the end of the month Resht was finally
cleared of all signs of active Jangali opposition and came under
our effective administration ”* The Jangalis gave us little
* “ The Adventures of Dunsterforce,” by General Dunsterville.
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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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