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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME I.' [167v] (339/454)
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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308 HISTORY OF THE WAR : MESOPOTAMIA
money reaches them, enabling them to make lavish disburse
ments in support of intrigues in Persia.” To enable him to
hold Baghdad, however, he would need a division as reinforce
ments, and he suggested the withdrawal of the necessary
Indian troops from Europe.
With the exception of the opinion regarding an advance
to Baghdad, which did not meet with their approval, the
Government of India agreed with the views expressed by
General Nixon, and they telegraphed accordingly on the
18th to the
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.
. They did not anticipate that the
Bakhtiaris would repudiate their agreement, and if the Bawi
were subsidised, as they recommended, they saw no undue
risk in Nixon's proposed advance to Kut, which was strat
egically desirable and would have a quieting influence on
Persia.
On the 20th August the
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.
replied that, as their
enquiries regarding the Arabistan garrison had reference to
local disorders and not to the wider question of Persian
hostilities, General Nixon’s military arrangements under
existing circumstances were accepted. Three weeks later a
subsidy to the Bawi tribe was sanctioned, and a wireless
installation was erected at the oil-fields and was in working
order by the 19th September.
In the meantime the anti-British activities of German
emissaries in Persia had brought about an attack, on the 12th
and 13th July, by Persian tribesmen on the British troops
sent to guard the British
Residency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India.
at Bushire. The attack
was unsuccessful; but the Persian Government failed to take
steps to rectify matters either here or elsewhere in Persia;
and at the end of July H.M. Government, seeing that their
advice and warnings to the Persian Government were having
no effect, decided to take action themselves. Instructions
were issued for a combined naval and military force to seize
and occupy the port and town of Bushire until the British
demands were complied with, and punitive measures were to
be carried out against Dilwar, the neighbouring headquarters*
of the tribesmen who had made the attack on the 12th and 13th.
At the same time, the Government of India despatched two
squadrons of cavalry and three hundred infantry with six
machine guns to Nasratabad in Seistan to prevent Turco-
German parties from using that route to enter Afghanistan and
Baluchistan.
It was about twenty miles along the sea coast from Bushire.
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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
- Extent and format
- 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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