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'History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919' [166r] (336/566)
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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BRITISH TROOPS AT HAMADAN
289
the desire for opposition to the British action was by no means
universal; and this was further confirmed when the Shah sent
word to the British Minister that he was prepared to dismiss
the Cabinet and appoint a new one under Ain-ud-Daula. Sir
Charles Marling considered, however, that such a Cabinet was
unlikely to be very different in complexion to the existing one,
whose imminent fall appeared to be responsible for the
extremists' efforts to induce a Jangali coup, first at Kazvin and
then at Tehran.
On the 18th March the Jangalis arrested Captain Noel of
the Indian Political Department, who had just returned to
Enzeli from a mission to Trans-Caucasia on which Sir Charles
Marling had sent him. But the British Minister had reliable
information that the Jangalis were not disposed to commit
themselves to an advance southwards until the Turkish troops
whose assistance they had been promised had actually arrived
on the scene. Moreover, they had recently quarrelled with and
been worsted by the Shah Sawan tribe, who inhabited the
area east of Tabriz ; and the financial crisis brought about by
their arrest of the British bank manager at Resht had caused
serious trouble between them and the Bolsheviks.
The Persian Government's attitude was further explained by
information from a reliable source that neither they nor the
Shah believed that we were in earnest about sending troops
from Mesopotamia.
In the last week of March the Jangali menace to Kazvin
was dispelled by the arrival there of Bicharakoff's detachment.
At the same time a small advanced party of the l/4th Hampshire
Regiment from Mesopotamia reached Hamadan, where anti-
British sentiment had decreased owing to the tactful and con
ciliatory methods of General Dunsterville and to the initiation
by him of famine relief measures.
By the beginning of April, information from various sources British
made it clear that the Turks were actively working for the
formation under Turkish control of the new Moslem state, which
should include not only Russian and Persian Azerbaijan but
also part of Gilan. Enver's brother, Nuri, was on his way to
Tabriz to organise a Moslem army, another Turkish notable
had been sent to Urmia to invoke Kurdish assistance, and the
Tartars were clearly ready to help the Turks. Turkish agents
were negotiating with the Persian extremists and the Jangalis,
but, finding that they objected strongly to any cession of Persian
territory, were concealing their real aims under the guise of
an intention to resist British attempts to intervene in 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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