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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME I.' [121r] (246/454)
The record is made up of 1 volume (223 folios). It was created in 1923. 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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TURKS ESCAPE BRITISH PURSUIT
219
of the Arabs, shot himself rather than live to see the min of
his project.
The decisive nature of the British victory was not at first
fully realised. On the 15th, the cavalry brigade moved out
to reconnoitre, and that night General Melliss reported that
Old Basra, Zubair and Barjisiya were clear of the enemy, who
had all retreated to Nukhaila and beyond it to the north-west.
General Nixon had been unable to despatch any reinforce
ments to Shaiba from Basra till the 14th. That morning a
special convoy guard, organised with mountain guns on rafts,
reached Shaiba without meeting serious opposition, earning
the remainder of the 24th Punjabis and ammunition. The
boats returned to Basra that evening carrying wounded and
Turkish prisoners.
The Euphrates Blockade flotilla had been too far off the
scene of the fighting to afford any assistance on the 14th,
but next morning they proceeded towards Nukhaila. Here
finding many of the enemy escaping in boats, they pursued
as far as Ratawi, destroying eight and capturing four large
mahailas. On the 16th] a heavy gale prevented further
pursuit, but next day, reinforced by two naval 4-7-inch
guns* mounted in horse-boats, the flotilla pushed on to Ghabish-
iya, which was found to be deserted, and scattered enemy
groups were observed retiring across the desert but offered
no target. The flotilla, however, picked up much abandoned
ammunition and stores.
At Quma the Turks had carried out an ineffective bom
bardment of the British position from the 11th to the 13th,
and on the 12th, a Turkish floating mine damaged seriously
the British bridge of boats. But the results were entirely
negligible, owing largely to the material assistance rendered
by the Esfiiegle, Odin, Miner and Lewis Felly.
Similarly, at Ahwaz there had been only a show of enemy
activity. On the 11th, the Comet was hit and slightly damaged
by several shells fired by an enemy gun near the banks of the
Karun. On the 12th, the Turks shelled the British camp
near Ahwaz and bodies of hostile cavalry and infantry were
seen to the south and west of it, but the attack did not
materialise and next day all was quiet.
In order to concentrate a striking force at Basra, General
Nixon arranged, on the 17th, to withdraw a great part of the
troops from Shaiba. The cavalry brigade less the 33rd Cavalry,
* Four of these guns had recently arrived from England ; also four horse-
boats from Suez in which to mount them.
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The volume is the first 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 divided into two parts. The first part, entitled, 'Part I. Before the Outbreak of Hostilities', consists of the following five chapters:
- General Description of the Country
- The Turks in Mesopotamia
- British Pre-War Policy
- The Army in India and Pre-War Military Policy
- Inception of the Operations
The second part, entitled, 'Part II. The Campaign in Lower Mesopotamia', consists of the following seven chapters:
- The Landing in Mesopotamia of Force "D" and the Operations Leading to the Occupation of Basra
- The Occupation of Basra and the Capture of Qurna
- Commencement of the Turkish Counter-Offensive
- Development and Defeat of the Turkish Counter-Offensive
- Operations in Arabistan and the Capture of Amara
- Operations on the Euphrates and the Occupation of Nasiriya
- The battle of Kut and Occupation of Aziziya
The volume also includes nine maps, entitled:
- The Middle East
- Lower Mesopotamia
- Map 1 - To illustrate operations described in Chapter VI
- Map 2 - To illustrate fighting near Qurna
- Map 3 - To illustrate fighting round Shaiba
- Map 4 - To illustrate operations in Persian Arabistan
- Map 5 - To illustrate operations in the Akaika Channel 27th June to 5th July 1915
- Map 6 - To illustrate operations near Nasiriya 6th to 24th July 1915
- Map 7 - To illustrate the Battle of Kut 28th September 1915
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- 1 volume (223 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume contains a page of errata (folio 5), a list of contents (folios 6-8), a list of maps and illustrations (folio 9), appendices (folios 185v-192), an index (folios 192v-214v), and eight maps in a pocket attached to the inside back cover (folios 217-224).
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 225; 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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