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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME IV.' [195v] (395/540)
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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330 HISTORY OF THE WAR : MESOPOTAMIA
For some weeks past it had appeared as if the Turks, in their
attempts to restore Azerbaijan to the territorial unity it
possessed before Russia annexed the northern portion in 1828
and to attach it to Turkey, were placing Turkish officers in
command of the local forces with the object of posing as
subjects of the new State and of remaining in Azerbaijan when
the Turkish forces withdrew * Our suspicions in regard to
Turkish intentions were fully confirmed when, on the 1st
November, Nuri
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
changed his title of General Officer
Commanding Caucasus Islam Army to that of Commander-in-
Chief Azerbaijan Army and at the same time announced that
all the ranks of the Turkish Army in Azerbaijan would be
regarded as in the service of that republic and no longer in the
service of Turkey. Under this pretext of a separate state,
the Turkish and local forces also continued hostilities against
Bicharakoff at Petrovsk.
Nuri
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
, when informed of our intention to occupy Baku,
at first tried to confuse the issue by referring us to the Azerbaijan
Republic. But his evasions were useless and on the 16th
November arrangements were made by General Thomson at
Enzeli with representatives from Baku for the evacuation of
the Turks, the withdrawal of the local forces and the occupation
of the town on the 17th by a combined force of British and
Russians. Captain Washington with his five ships had reached
Petrovsk on the 6th November with a letter informing Bich
arakoff of our intention to occupy Baku and requesting his
co-operation, which was desirable to avoid any risk of mistrust
in regard to our intentions on the part of the local inhabitants.
Bicharakoff agreed and reached Enzeli with his troops and
three gunboats on the 12th November. On the 17th he and
his force accompanied General Thomson with part of the North
Persia Force and the British armed flotilla to Baku.
The British and Indian troops in North Persia had been set
a difficult and a thankless task. But they had carried it
out in a manner worthy of their best traditions, and their
discipline and behaviour had so favourably impressed the
Persians that it brought about among them a considerable
reaction of feeling in our favour. Their presence consequently
did much to restore British prestige in the country and thus
proved of considerable value to Sir Percy Cox and his
diplomatic and political assistants.
On the 16th October H.M. Government gave the Persian Government an
assurance that they would not entertain any proposal that the Turks might
make regarding the cession of any part of Persian Azerbaijan.
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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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