The Bastard War: The Mesopotamian Campaign of 1914-1918Dial Press, 1967 - 449 Seiten |
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... reached toward the cavalry the British were gradually compelled to edge further and further outward from the river . A sudden threat developed when it was seen that some Turkish camelmen , with parties of the ubiquitous Buddhoos , were ...
... reached toward the cavalry the British were gradually compelled to edge further and further outward from the river . A sudden threat developed when it was seen that some Turkish camelmen , with parties of the ubiquitous Buddhoos , were ...
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... reached . The men of both brigades plodded stolidly on until , out of the haze and less than a mile away , Turks could be seen digging away feverishly . But not for long , and soon bullets from positions on both flanks were singing ...
... reached . The men of both brigades plodded stolidly on until , out of the haze and less than a mile away , Turks could be seen digging away feverishly . But not for long , and soon bullets from positions on both flanks were singing ...
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... reached Falluja . There was little fighting ; most of the opposition came from the Arabs , as the Turks fell back on Ramadi , twenty - five miles upstream , when they saw the British troops approaching . The objective had been reached ...
... reached Falluja . There was little fighting ; most of the opposition came from the Arabs , as the Turks fell back on Ramadi , twenty - five miles upstream , when they saw the British troops approaching . The objective had been reached ...
Inhalt
Prologue | 3 |
The Ottoman Empire 1914 | 5 |
Chapter 1 | 18 |
Urheberrecht | |
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19th Brigade Abadan action advance Ahwaz Ali Gharbi Amara Arabs Army arrived artillery assault attack Aylmer Aziziyeh Baghdad Basra battalions battle Black Watch boats bombardment bridge BRIG British and Indian British troops Buddhoos Bushire campaign captured casualties cavalry Cavalry Brigade column command crossing Ctesiphon defences Delamain Diyala Dujaila Dujaila Redoubt effect Espiègle Euphrates fighting fire flank floods forward front line garrison German Gharbi Gorringe gunboats Gurkhas Hanna hundred India infantry Khalil land left bank Marsh Maude Maude's Melliss Mesopotamia miles military morning Mosul move Nasiriyeh night Nixon Nur-Ud-Din officers operation Persian pontoons prisoners Punjabis Qurna railway Ramadi Redoubt regiments reinforcements Relief Force rifles right bank Russian Sannaiyat seemed sent Shaiba Sheikh Sa'ad shells ships Shumran Sinn Sir John Nixon soldiers soon staff steamers supply thousand Tigris Corps town Townshend transport Turkish Turkish positions Turks Wadi Whitehall wounded yards