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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME II.' [83r] (172/660)
The record is made up of 1 volume (323 folios). It was created in 1924. 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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137
NIXON DEPRECATES WITHDRAWAL
An hour later General Townshend telegraphed :—
.... Have you any news of a Russian movement
at Baghdad ? as it would make all the difference in look
of situation here .... I find no lighters are left
for my heavy guns and I should have to destroy them if
I retreat, also large amount of small arm ammunition."
And again at 12.10 p.m. :—
.... Can Army Commander make his concentration
Shaikh Saad-Ali Gharbi ? This would make my position
practically safe, and I should become covering force
to the concentration and could fall back on force at
Shaikh Saad whenever I wanted to with ease. The fact
of troops arriving at Shaikh Saad will keep right bank
open ; moreover, enemy would be afraid to go round
me and sit astride the river at Es Sinn, as he will most
certainly do in the near future."
That evening General Townshend reported that the cavalry
brigade and transport, having crossed the river, were on the
march for Ali Gharbi by 11 a.m. They were being followed
up by large numbers of Arabs, both mounted and on foot,
who had appeared suddenly from the Shatt al Hai.
At 5.30 p.m., on the 6th, General Nixon replied to General
Townshend’s three morning telegrams :—
. . . . (1) The period of two months was an outside
limit calculating to the arrival of the last reinforcement
and the time that would elapse before a general forward
movement could be made. It is hoped to quicken
this up.
(2) So far as we know, you are not yet invested nor
is the river line cut. Younghusband with 28th Brigade
and Cavalry Brigade should be established at Ali Gharbi
and Shaikh Saad within the next week and enable
supplies to be pushed in to you.
“ (3) Retirement from Kut would open Shatt al Hai
and have very bad effect, and does not at present seem
to be demanded as a military necessity. Of the actual
dispositions for occupation of Kut you are the best
judge. So far the Turks have apparently made no move.
Do you think possibly that they have shot their bolt for
the time ? They have only five steamers as against our
three times that number and more coming. You have
10,000 against 12,000, and you have superior artillery.
(4) You speak of six divisions. Does this number
include 52nd, last reported to be in Baghdad, and 26th,
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The volume is the second 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 III. The First Campaign for Baghdad', and consists of the following fourteen chapters:
- The Decision to Advance to Baghdad
- Commencement of the Advance Towards Baghdad
- The Battle of Ctesiphon - the First Day's Operations
- Battle of Ctesiphon (Continued) and the British Retirement to Kut
- The Decision to Hold Kut and British Policy Consequent on the Failure to Reach Baghdad
- The Siege of Kut: First Phase (December 1915)
- Commencement of the Relief Operations
- The Action of Shaikh Saad
- The Action of the Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. and the First Attack on Hanna
- Operations up to the End of February, 1916
- The Second Attempt to Relieve Kut; the Attack on the Dujaila Redoubt
- The Third Attempt to Relieve Kut; the Successful Advance to and First and Second Attacks on Sannaiyat
- The Last Attempt at Relief; Bait Isa and Sannaiyat
- The Siege of Kut; the Last Stages
The volume also includes nine maps, entitled:
- The Middle East
- Lower Mesopotamia
- Map 8 - The Tigris from Kut al Amara to Baghdad
- Map 9 - The Battle of Ctesiphon
- Map 10 - The affair of Umm at Tubul
- Map 11 - The defence of Kut al Amara
- Map 12 - The fort at Kut; with special reference to the Turkish attack on 24th December 1915
- Map 13 - River Tigris between Ali Gharbi and Shumran
- Map 14 - The action at Shaikh Saad
- Map 15 - The action of the Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
- Map 16 - The first attack on Hanna; 21st January 1916
- Map 17 - The attack on the Dujaila Redoubt, 8th March 1916
- Map 18 - To illustrate Tigris Corps Operation Order No. 26, dated 6th March 1916
- Map 19 - To illustrate operations between 10th March and end of April 1916
- Map 20 - The action of Bait Isa on 17th and 18th April 1916, and the attack on Sannaiyat 22nd April 1916
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (323 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume contains a list of contents (folios 6-10), a list of maps and illustrations (folio 11), appendices (folios 254-290), an index (folios 291-312), and eleven maps in a pocket attached to the inside back cover (folios 314-324).
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 325; 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 volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:3r, 3r, 4r:70v, 72r:79r, 160v, 80r:102v, 104r:160r, 161r, 313v, 161v:281v, 283r:313v, back-i
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