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'History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919' [235r] (474/566)
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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RELIEF OF FIRUZABAD
415
and 700 baggage mules*. On the 22nd, when he crossed the
Muk pass unopposed, Colonel Orton received information that
SaulaCs following had increased to about 2,000 and that
Ehtesham, most of whose Qashqai following had deserted him,
was practically besieged at Firuzabad.
Next day, when traversing a defile, Colonel Orton's column
encountered some opposition ; and he decided to cut short
his march and camp that night at Ismailabad, about fifteen
miles short of Firuzabad, so as to endeavour by skirmishing
during the afternoon to discover the enemy’s numbers and
dispositions. As a result of the day’s operations he cleared the
vicinity of Ismailabad of the enemy, whose numbers he esti
mated at five or six hundred and on whom he inflicted a loss
of about 40, at a cost of 11 casualties among his own men.
During the night 23rd/24th October the enemy fired con
stantly into his camp, hitting a few animals, and made an attack
which was easily repulsed.
Colonel Orton hoped that the Qashqais, emboldened by the
idea that they had stopped his advance, would stand and fight
early on the 24th October, thus enabling him to defeat them on
his side of the high ridge of tangled hills which separated
Ismailabad from the Firuzabad valley. The main route across
this ridge lay through the Tangab defile, which was about four
miles long with precipitous cliffs on either side and which
Colonel Orton intended to avoid by using a track over the ridge
to the westward.
On Colonel Orton resuming his advance on the 24th October,
it was at once evident that the enemy intended to stand and
fight; and about 250 of his men—the bulk of his force—were
seen in occupation of a ridge, about 4,000 yards to the south-
south-west and about 2,600 yards westward of Ibrahimabad
village. By 8 a.m. Lieutenant-Colonel Dyer with two squadrons
Burma Mounted Rifles, their advance supported by the fire of
the mountain guns, had secured a minor ridge some 1,200 yards
north of the enemy’s main position. Lieutenant-Colonel
Holbrooke with the 3/124th Baluchis (less one company) was
then sent forward to secure the left flank about Ibrahimabad
and to attack this position. The remaining Burma squadron
and a Baluchi company were retained by Colonel Orton as a
reserve.
Two of the Baluchi companies gained a knoll about 1,000
yards north-west of the enemy’s position without difficulty,
the third company, securing the left flank about Ibrahimabad,
* No tents were taken and baggage was on a reduced scale.
Relief of
Firuzabad;
24th October
1918.
(See Map 13.)
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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).
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- 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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