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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME IV.' [154v] (313/540)
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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254 HISTORY OF THE WAR : MESOPOTAMIA
I
replace Sir Charles Marling as British Minister at Tehran on
the latter’s departure to Europe on sick leave :*
“ The complete destruction of the whole Turkish army
in Palestine leaves Syria open to invasion. Every anti-
Turkish element in the country will support the advancing
British. The communications of the Turkish force in
Mesopotamia are thus seriously threatened and in all
probability it will be forced to abandon Mesopotamia
altogether. Arabia is completely lost to them and the
fall of Medina is now imminent. Turkey, in addition to
being faced with the loss of three-quarters of her Asiatic
territory, is gravely threatened in Europe by the Allied
advance in the Balkans, which, since 15th September,
has continued uninterruptedly. The Bulgarian army is
in a critical situation and a slight further advance by the
Allies will sever it in two. To meet all these dangers on
so many fronts the Turks have only one army left, which
is now in the Caucasus and Persia. General Allenby’s
victory has already compelled them to transfer to Con
stantinople a division which was destined for Tabriz ; and
the situation in the Balkans and Palestine will completely
paralyse Turkish operations in the Middle East, and in all
probability will lead very soon to the evacuation of Persia.
Thus the whole situation has been transformed in the last
few days and the Turks must now think only of protecting
their own territory and not of further aggression.”
On the 27th September, Bulgaria asked for an armistice;
and it was reported that the Germans intended to withdraw
their troops from the Caucasus and that the Turkish Govern
ment wished to do the same. As it turned out, however,
both German and Turkish troops remained there for some weeks
longer ; though danger of a further Turkish advance into Persia
became almost negligible. Colonel von der Goltz saysf that
he was sent to represent German interests at Baku and set out
for that place by railway from Tiflis with a large escort on the
2nd October. His party was stopped by armed Tartars
before he reached Elizabetopol, but Nuri
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
invited him
four days later to Baku, where he soon afterwards arrived, and
* Sir Percy Cox would have preferred to remain at his post in Mesopotamia
till the end of the war, and only responded to the call to Tehran at the express
wish of the Viceroy of India and of General Marshall, who felt that his intimate
knowledge of the personnel and problems of the Mesopotamia Force would
make his presence in H.M. Legation helpful to them at that juncture,
t “ Meine Entsendung nach Baku.”
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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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