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The Mesopotamian campaign or Mesopotamian front [9] (Turkish: Irak Cephesi) was a campaign in the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I fought between the Allies represented by the British Empire, troops from Britain, Australia and the vast majority from British Raj, against the Central Powers, mostly the Ottoman Empire.
The Battle of Nasiriyah was a battle in World War I that took place in the Mesopotamian city of Nasiriyah between British and Ottoman forces in July 1915. It was a pivotal battle in the Mesopotamian campaign of World War I and saw 5,000 British and Indian troops face off against a Turkish garrison of a similar number.
The Walcheren Campaign of 1809 and the Crimean War had been investigated by parliamentary committees. [1] The British prime minister, H. H. Asquith , therefore initially proposed a select committee to inquire into the disasters at the Dardanelles (the Gallipoli Bridgeheads were finally evacuated in the winter of 1915-16) and in Mesopotamia ...
The Sasanian campaigns of Odaenathus (261–266 AD) constituted yet another success of the Roman armies or rather, in this specific case the Roman–Palmyrene armies, over the armies of the Sassanids for the supremacy of the nearby Kingdom of Armenia and northern Mesopotamia.
Download as PDF; Printable version ... (Lahore) Division (redeployed to Mesopotamia in 1915) 7th ... East Africa Campaign. 27th (Bangalore) Brigade [1] Imperial ...
In the later campaign which led to the capture of Baghdad by General Maude, logistics were much better dealt with. The battle also demonstrated that the Ottoman Army could fight well on its own. Lieutenant General Nureddin had taken an army that had been beaten a number of times, put it in a carefully prepared defensive position, and held off ...
The siege of Kut Al Amara (7 December 1915 – 29 April 1916), also known as the first battle of Kut, was the besieging of an 8,000-strong British Army garrison in the town of Kut, 160 km (100 mi) south of Baghdad, by the Ottoman Army.
It remained in Mesopotamia for the rest of the First World War, taking part in the action at Fat-ha Gorge on the Little Zab (23–26 October 1918) and the Battle of Sharqat (28–30 October 1918) under the command of I Corps. [2] [3] At the end of the war, the 18th Division was chosen to form part of the occupation force for Iraq.