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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME II.' [245v] (499/660)
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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452 HISTORY OF THE WAR: MESOPOTAMIA
!u e J i 8 ‘P°™ ders and P ut them on barges. He would destrov
aU his heavy guns, and until conditions were br „ 3 2
agreed on he was quite within his rights in destroying gu„f a 5
ammunition. In an Arab country one could not destrov
^fasfau^ ammUniti0n ' The fl0 ° dS ^
General Lake then suggested to General Townshend that his
guns might constitute the only considerable fro quoC
he cou d offer Halil in consideration of the garrison being allowed
to go free; and the guns, he said, with only a small quantity
of ammunition would be valueless to the enemy If all terms
were refused they could be destroyed. This telegram cros^d
the following reply to General Lake’s suggestion that Generd
Townshend should conduct the negotiations :
“ I will certainly do whichever you consider best for
the pubhc service. If you order me to open negotiations
I shah personally see Halil and ask him to have six days'’
armistice for discussion of terms and allow you to send
me up at once ten days’ food supplies. None of the forces
to advance from present positions or lines of defences.”
At 3.30 a.m. on the 26th April General Lake telegraphed
repeating part of the message he had just received from the
Secretary of State for War * and directing General Townshend
to open negotiations on the lines suggested. No proposals
for a retirement of General Gorringe’s force could be entertained
and General Townshend was authorised to dispose of a million
pounds sterling!. if necessary in the negotiations. The
services of Captain The Honourable Aubrey Herbert, M.P
and of Captain Lawrence, of the Cairo Intelligence Staff, both
at that time present with the relief force, could be placed at
General Townshend's service if required ; as they both had
special qualifications for such work.
•f ^ enera f telegraphed to London and India asking
it he would be justified in offering to exchange for the Kut
garrison an equivalent number of the Turkish prisoners held
by us, and he told General Townshend he would let him know
the result of his enquiry.
^ a ' m " ° n 26th General Townshend sent a letter to
All Nejib
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
, commanding the force blockading Kut, asking
that Halil
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
might be informed that he had been authorised
to open negotiations for the surrender of Kut. He was, he
said, just writing a letter himsel f to Halil asking for a six days’
* See page 435.
t Subsequently increased to two millions. ,
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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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