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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME IV.' [130r] (264/540)
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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TURKISH INTENTIONS
207
at Tabriz and two others not far to its northward, had been
joined by some Persian democrats, in sympathy with Turkish
Pan-Islamic ideas, who were assisting them by raising irregulars
and conducting anti-British propaganda among the local
tribes. The presence of Persian Cossacks southward of Tabriz
did nothing to ease the situation, as they would not arrest
enemy agents, were unlikely to oppose an enemy advance and
were detested, owing to their tyrannical methods, by the local
inhabitants. On the other hand, bodies of Armenians in the
Erivan and Julfa areas were still holding out against the Turks
and causing them embarrassment, but were too far away for
us to be able to assist them ; and the Turks were still mainly
occupied in their attempt to take Baku. Moreover, the
growing friction with Bulgaria, the reports from Palestine
that General Allenby was preparing for a further advance
and the German situation in France were all bound to cause
them anxiety.
Colonel Hussain Hasni Amir Bey says in “ Yilderim ” that,
when he received orders in July, 1918, to hand over command
of the 46th Division on the Palestine front and to proceed to
join the Ninth Army in the Caucasus as Chief of Staff, he quite
failed to understand why this new army had been formed for
a new objective. When he reached Constantinople at the
beginning of August he could not persuade Enver,* who
seemed convinced that the requirements of the Western Front
would prevent General Allenby attacking, of the danger
threatening the Palestine front ; while General von Seckt, the
Chief of Staff at Turkish General Headquarters, said that it
was necessary to capture Enzeli and for the Ninth Army,
whose advanced guard was at Tabriz, to seize Kurdistan, so
as to threaten the British effectively and retake Baghdad.
He further said, in the course of the discussion, that, even
if the Sixth Army was forced to retire and Mosul was lost, the
Ninth Army would continue its operations towards Persia.
Colonel Hussain Hasni Amir Bey says that he considered this
plan to retake Baghdad more ill-advised that the 1917 project
for the Yilderim army; and he hints that Enver’s plans for
occupying the greater part of the Caucasus were so objected toby
the Germans that they contemplated the possible annihilation
of the Ninth Army in Kurdistan with equanimity. At this
period Halil
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
had handed over control in Mesopotamia
to Ali Ihsan, and proceeded to take over a command in the
* It is noteworthy that by this time Enver seems to have lost much of his
popularity and influence.
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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
- Extent and format
- 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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