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'HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR BASED ON OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918. VOLUME IV.' [111r] (226/540)
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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TURCO-GERMAN ACTION
177
was said that the Turks, alleging that British and Armenian
troops had driven Turkish troops back from near Julfa, had
begun to advance again. There appeared to be seven Turkish
divisions (about 21,000 rifles and 250 guns) on this front, with
their main strength in the Poti-Alexandropol area. German
troops* were reported to be guarding the railway from Batum
to Tiflis ; and, though Turkish efforts to form bodies of local
tioops were reported to have met with little success, it was
estimated that the enemy would be able to attack Baku in
about a month’s time.
It appears that on the 8 th June the Georgian Government
signed a treaty of peace with Germany, by which Georgia was
to receive German financial aid and also military assistance to
prevent Turkish infringement of Georgian rights and neutrality ;
and Germany was, in exchange, to receive priority in mineral
concessions. On the 9th June German troops began landing
at Poti and on the 12th occupied Tiflis. On the 8 th June also,
Turkey, acting apparently under German pressure, concluded
treaties with Georgia and Armenia, recognising their independ
ence. In return for such recognition, however, Armenia was
forced to agree to a Turkish military occupation and to the free
passage through its territory of Turkish troops. Thus, by the
action of Germany, Turkey was denied the military use of
railways through Georgia, the immense prejudicial effect of
which on Turkish plans in regard to Baku and Russian Azer
baijan is evident from a glance at the map.f According to
German accounts this was justified by the arrangement come to
between Turkey and Germany that Turkish military operations
were to be confined mainly to an offensive into Persian
Azerbaijan and that Baku was not to be occupied by Turks.
During June information was received that the 51st Turkish
Division on the Tigris had been broken up and that at least
three Turkish battalions had left Kirkuk for the Urmia front.
It was also reported that 70,000 to 80,000 prisoners of war,
who were fit for service, had returned to Turkey from Russia,
On the other hand, an insurrectionary movement by the many
thousands of deserters in
Anatolia
Peninsula that forms most of modern-day Turkey.
was said to be growing,
though lack of organisation would probably militate against its
having any great effect.
For his part. General Marshall contemplated no offensive
in Mesopotamia during the hot weather. Many of his officers
Apparently a local formation composed of released prisoners of war and a
battalion from the Ukraine,
t See Map 41.
(19465) N
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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
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- 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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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:2v, 4r:186v, 188r:255v, back-i
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