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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME IV.' [178v] (361/540)
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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300 HISTORY OF THE WAR : MESOPOTAMIA
were to continue to block the enemy’s retirement northwards.
The 17th Division was to continue the pursuit during the
night and to attack the enemy vigorously as early as possible in
the morning. General Sanders' column was to be prepared
to push on to the ferry north of Huwaish before daylight if
the situation demanded it, pushing on cavalry in the meantime
to watch the river as far as there during the night.* The
7th Cavalry Brigade was to press forward so as to co-operate
with the 11 th Cavalry Brigade and General Sanders' column
in cutting off the enemy’s retreat; and the 18th Division was
to hold the bridgehead on the Little Zab.
General Cobbe had come to the conclusion that the enemy
probably intended to hold the line south of Sharqat, which he
was entrenching, with about half his force and to make a
direct attack on the 11th Cavalry Brigade or else cross to the
Tigris left bank with the other half. His chances of effecting
the latter had been minimised by General Sanders’ rapid
advance, but this made it all the more necessary to divert
as many of the enemy as possible from an attack on the 11 th
Cavalry Brigade. As further reports reached him, General
Cobbe saw that the progress of the 17th Division had been
unexpectedly slow. Moreover, it was not clear that General
Leslie realised how imperative it was to press the pursuit.
Accordingly at 10 p.m. General Cobbe’s Chief of Staff telephoned
both to General Leslie and his senior General Staff Officer and
impressed on them the urgent necessity of more rapid progress
and of calling on their troops for further efforts despite
exhaustion.
At 11.20 p.m. General Leslie issued a fresh order directing
General Wauchope's column to advance at 3 a.m., with a view
to attacking the enemy south of Sharqat, and Colonel
Coningham’s column to advance from Balalij with the same
object. The artillery of both columns was to be well in action
by 8 a.m. supporting the attack, in which the 18th Divisional
artillery would co-operate from the Tigris left bank. The 51st
Infantry Brigade was to continue its march through Qalat-al-
Bint at 6 a.m. along the river road and be in reserve.
Until the situation towards Altun Kopri was clearer and more
definite information had been received in regard to the where
abouts of the Turkish 2nd and 5th Divisions, it seemed necessary
to keep troops on the Little Zab. But some reduction in
* Contact aeroplanes had kept General Oobbe acquainted during the day
with General Sanders’ progress, but he had not yet heard of the latter’s
decision to march all night.
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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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