Author: Roger Evans (Major-General.)
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Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Roger Evans
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Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 158

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Author: Paul Knight
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786470496
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 211

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When war broke out between the British and Turkish empires in 1914, the 6th (Poona) Division sailed from India to Basra to bolster Britain's allies, deny the port to enemy shipping, and secure Britain's Persian oil supplies. Further expansion followed: the capture of Al-Amara was the British Army's greatest victory of 1915. When an advance on Baghdad was repulsed, the Siege of Kut became the British Army's longest siege and greatest surrender. Attempts to relieve Kut led to unsuccessful battles that were bloody and muddy even by Western Front standards. Under new leadership, revitalized and reinforced, the British avenged their defeat when Baghdad was captured in March 1917. Thereafter, the British Empire committed, in campaigns of limited value to the overall war effort, huge levels of manpower and materiel desperately needed elsewhere. What was created was modern Iraq and the first Arab government in Baghdad in over 400 years. This detailed history places the campaign in context of Allied operations in the Middle East and sheds light on several unsung heroes of the war, including General Charles Townshend whose spectacular 1915 victories led to humiliating defeat and captivity in 1916; General Frederick Stanley Maude whose March 1917 entry into Baghdad preceded General Allenby's entry into Jerusalem by eight months; and Miss Gertrude Bell, a "female Lawrence of Arabia" who played a central role in the creation of the new Iraqi state.

Author: Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 430

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Author: Frederick James Moberly
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Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 434

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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 740

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Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 496

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Søgeord: Aylmer, F.J.; Chamberlain, J. Austen; Suliman Pak; Duff, B.; von der Goltz; Gorringe; Halil Pasha; Lord Hardinge of Penshurst; Kut al Amara; Lake, P.H.N.; General J.E. Nixon; Townshend, C.V.F.; Tyrkiske Hær; Shatt el Arab; Nasiriya; Lord Crewe; Basra; Barrett, A.A.; Baku; Bicharakoff; Dunsterville, L.C.; von Falkenhayn; Marshall, W.R.; Maude, F.S.; Robertson, W.R.; Wilson, H.H.; Baratoff, N.N.; Cobbe, A.S.; Jabal Hamrin; Sannaiyat; Shatt al Adjaim;

Author: J. F. Bosher
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1450059635
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 839

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"During the century 1850-1950 Vancouver Island attracted Imperial officers and other Imperials from India, the British Isles, and elsewhere in the Empire. Victoria was the main British port on the north-west Pacific Coast for forty years before the city of Vancouver was founded in 1886 to be the coastal terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway. These two coastal cities were historically and geographically different. The Island joined Canada in 1871 and thirty-five years later the Royal Navy withdrew from Esquimalt, but Island communities did not lose their Imperial character until the 1950s."--P. [4] of cover.

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Languages : en
Pages : 508

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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 608

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