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'History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919' [172r] (348/566)
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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299
THE ENEMY IN TRANS-CAUCASIA
By their occupation of Sevastopol on the 1st May and their The Caucasus
seizure of a portion of the Russian Black Sea fleet, the Germans ^ est pg rs i a .
had gained a route to Trans-Caucasia on which they would be Ist _ IIt h
quite independent of Turkey—a factor of considerable advan- May 1918 .
tage having regard to the divergent aims of the two countries.
Georgia was entirely pro-German and a German military
detachment* had already reached Tiflis, which the British
military mission, finding itself in a dangerous and impossible
position, was forced to leave on the 3rd May for Vladikavkas.
On the other hand, the Bolsheviks, alarmed by Turco-German
action, were fighting the Tartars and were less inclined to resent
the idea of British assistance in Trans-Caucasia. But the War
Office decided on the 4th May that the situation in the Caucasus
did not permit of General Dunsterville’s acceptance of the
Armenian invitation to Baku, though it was hoped that he
might be able to reach Enzeli and gain control of the Caspian
fleet. The sympathies of the Tartars were all with the Turks,
whose advance in Trans-Caucasia was now directed towards
Russian as well as towards Persian Azerbaijan and whose
intentions, according to Nuri
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
, who arrived at Tabriz with
a Turkish staff on the 6th May, were to take over the Moslem
areas in the Caucasus and to fight the Armenians.
The converging advance of Turkish troops on Tabriz seemed
to be hanging fire, owing apparently in part to the resistance
they encountered from the Jelus and Armenians in the Urmia
region, and also, possibly, to a slight extent to the British
operations towards Kirkuk which had just started. But, as
pointed out by the Commander-in-Chief in India on the 3rd
May, these operations provided neither an effective counter to
the Turkish penetration of Persian Azerbaijan nor the military
demonstration in West Persia which Sir Charles Marling at
Tehran required and expected. General Monro accordingly
recommended that we should utilise all the available transport
in Mesopotamia to carry out out original intention of moving
troops along the Hamadan road. On the 11th May General
Dunsterville reported that a good opportunity had occurred for
Bicharakoff to proceed to Baku and gain control of the Caspian,
but that, as there were no British troops in the Hamadan area
to relieve his men, Bicharakoff could not be spared from Kazvin.
At this time also, owing to the Turkish threat to Tabriz, which
perturbed them greatly, the Persian Government and Persians
generally were more likely to welcome a display of force by the
* A regiment formed locally of German colonists and ex-prisoners of war
and 800 Ukraine troops under German officers.
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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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