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'History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919' [31v] (67/566)
The record is made up of 1 volume (279 folios). It was created in 1929. 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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34
OPERATIONS IN PERSIA
control was entirely lacking. The local provincial councils
also Droved unequal to their task and neither they nor the
central assembly were able to obtain the money required to
enable them to enforce their authonty.
Anglo- It was in this critical year (1907), when Persia was m special
Russian 0 f iudicious and disinterested advice, that Great Britain,
Convention
1007 by signing the Anglo-Russian Convention lost the populanty
and influence which she, more than any other foreign nation,
enioved in Persia. For over three hundred years, except
for a few short interludes, British intercourse with Persia had
been uniformly of a most friendly character. Since the days
of the Sherley brothers, many British soldiers, merchants
and diplomatists had been honoured in Persia for their dis
tinguished service in the country. British naval and military
forces had cleared the shores of the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
of the invading
Portuguese and the sea of marauding Arabs, and British officers
had fought on the side of Persia against Turks, rebellions
subject-tribes and Russians. Moreover, for the^ services she
rendered, Great Britain had only asked for the right to trade,
and her innocence of aggressive intention had been confirmed
by her generous conduct after the one small war between the
two countries. Ever since then, Persia had come to rely on
Great Britain as her main stand-by against Russia, while the
popular respect and admiration for the British had been much
enhanced by the support and sympathy which they had afforded
the recent constitutional movement.
Of the causes which led Great Britain to sign this con
vention and which have been given in his book “ Twenty-five
Years ” by Lord Grey, the following appear the most important.
He says that the cardinal object was to secure ourselves
against further Russian advances in the direction of the
Indian frontier and against further interference with onr
interests which concerned India. Not only had Russian action
brought us at times to the verge of war, but it obliged the
Government of India to incur expenditure on defence which
they desired to utilise on other growing needs of the country.
To India an independent Persia* offered the advantage of a
buffer state, but her internal condition so attracted and
invited foreign intervention as to become at any time the
cause of conflict, more especially as it had become the p°fi c ^
of Persia to play off one Government against the other,
seemed evident to the British Government that nothing short
* The Convention dealt also with Afghanistan and Tibet, but here we are
only considering its relation to Persia.
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A confidential publication compiled, by arrangement with the Government of India, under the direction of the Historical Section of The Committee of Imperial Defence, by Brigadier-General FJ Moberly. The volume is part of the Official History of the Great War series produced by the British Government.
The volume begins with a preface by Moberly and is then divided into 11 (I-XI) chapters, plus appendices, as follows:
- Chapter I: Introductory
- Chapter II: August 1914 to June 1915, Enemy efforts to bring Persia into the War
- Chapter III: July to November 1915, Enemy action and Persian weakness necessitate Allied intervention
- Chapter IV: December 1915 to May 1916, Successful results of Allied operations
- Chapter V: May to December 1916, Turkish invasion of Western Persia and British measures in South and East Persia
- Chapter VI: December 1916 to August 1917, Effects of British success in Mesopotamia
- Chapter VII: September 1917 to April 1918, The failure of Persia to maintain her neutrality necessitates further British intervention
- Chapter VIII: May to July 1918, The effect in Persia of the German successes in France; and the anti-British outbreak in Fars
- Chapter IX: July to September 1918, The tide turns in favour of the Allies
- Chapter X: October to 11th November 1918, The effect of our victories
- Chapter XI: Conclusion
The volume contains fourteen maps, some of which are in a pocket in the inside back cover, as follows:
- 1. Operations at Bushire 1915 (folio 275)
- 2. Portion of Perso-Afghan frontier (folio 276)
- 3. Operations at Dilbar, 13th-15th August 1915 (folio 66)
- 4. Operations of General Dyer in Sarhad, April-August 1916 (folio 277)
- 5. Wanderings of German parties in Persia and Afghanistan (folio 278)
- 6. Affair of Dasht-i-Arjan, 25th September 1916 (folio 128)
- 7. Affair of Kafta, 5th July 1917 (folio 144)
- 8. Northern Fars (folio 177)
- 9. Action of Deh Shaikh, 25th May 1918 (folio 182)
- 10. Shiraz (folio 194)
- 11. Operations from Bushire, September 1918-January 1919 (folio 279)
- 12. Plan of East Persia L. of C. (folio 231)
- 13. Operations for relief of Firuzabad, October 1918 (folio 236)
- 14. Persia (folio 280)
The volume also includes a bibliography (folio 14).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (279 folios)
- Arrangement
At the front of the volume there is a contents page (ff 6-14), list of maps (f 14), and list of illustrations (f 14). At the back of the volume is a general index (ff 269-73). All refer to the volume's original pagination.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 281; 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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