The Bastard War: The Mesopotamian Campaign of 1914-1918Dial Press, 1967 - 449 Seiten |
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... able to make off without much difficulty . A couple of guns and 150 prisoners were taken . Losses would have been a great deal more if the 33rd Cavalry had been able to get after them . With the ground a quagmire , the going far too ...
... able to make off without much difficulty . A couple of guns and 150 prisoners were taken . Losses would have been a great deal more if the 33rd Cavalry had been able to get after them . With the ground a quagmire , the going far too ...
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... able to stage another demonstration of the warm welcome they were supposed to be affording the invaders . Apart from dealing with the attentions of the Arabs , the troops ' life was mostly spent in improving the defences . Digging only ...
... able to stage another demonstration of the warm welcome they were supposed to be affording the invaders . Apart from dealing with the attentions of the Arabs , the troops ' life was mostly spent in improving the defences . Digging only ...
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... able to take what it could carry with it on the men's backs - two - hundred rounds of ammunition and two days ' rations.2 The next obvious alternative was to stay where he was , continuing to block the passage of the Turks ' ships and ...
... able to take what it could carry with it on the men's backs - two - hundred rounds of ammunition and two days ' rations.2 The next obvious alternative was to stay where he was , continuing to block the passage of the Turks ' ships and ...
Inhalt
Prologue | 3 |
Chapter 1 | 18 |
Chapter 2 | 40 |
Urheberrecht | |
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13th Division 19th Brigade Abadan action Adhaim advance Ali Gharbi Amara Arabs Army arrived artillery assault attack Aylmer Aziziyeh Baghdad Baquba Baratoff Basra battalions battle Black Watch boats bridge BRIG British and Indian British troops Buddhoos campaign Canal captured casualties Cavalry Brigade column command crossing Ctesiphon defences Delamain Diyala Dujaila effect Euphrates Falluja fighting fire flank flood forward front line Gallipoli garrison German Gorringe Gurkhas Hanna hundred Ihsan India infantry Khalil Khanaqin Kiazim left bank machine guns March Marsh Marshall Maude Maude's Melliss Mesopotamia miles military morning Mosul move Nasiriyeh night Nixon officers operations Persian pontoons prisoners Punjabis Qurna railway Ramadi Redoubt Regiment reinforcements Relief Force rifles right bank Russian Samarrah Sannaiyat sent Shaiba Sheikh Sa'ad ships Shumran Sinn soldiers soon staff steamers success supply thousand Tigris Corps Tikrit town Townshend transport trenches Turkish positions Turks Whitehall wounded yards