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Identifier: britishcampaign00dane (find matches)
Title: British campaigns in the nearer East, 1914-1918
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Dane, Edmund
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns Turkey and the Near East World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns Mesopotamia and the Persian Gulf
Publisher: London, New York (etc.) : Hodder and Stoughton
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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break, in that climatea rare feat of endurance. Nothing could better attesttheir magnificent moral. The Tigris for a sufficient distance above Bagdadhaving been secured, it became easier to solidify theposition on the Diala. Here the enemy still heldBakuba, 30 miles north-east of Bagdad and thecentre of a cultivated area. The town, too, markedthe junction of the roads from Samarra and Bagdad,with the route running north to Khanikin, and toseize the place meant severing the enemys chief com-munications with Persia. Bakuba lies on the easternbank of the Diala, A British post was establishedopposite the town on the western bank. While thegarrison of Bakuba, not a large force, were thusexpecting a direct attack, a British column, crossingthe Diala five miles downstream at Bahriz, took Ba-kuba from the reverse direction, and no other waybeing open the Turks retreated north towards Khanikin.At this date the Russians under the command ofGeneral Baratoff, who had defeated the Turkish 13th 284
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To face page 2)54. BRITISH CAMPAIGNS IN THE NEARER EAST Army Corps, were pushing on towards Kasr-i-Shirinwith the intention at Khanikin of Hnking up with theBritish. Retreat upon Mosul, by way of Bakubacut off, the Turkish 13th Corps would be obliged toretire from Kasr-i-Shirin over the difficult mountainroad to Kifri. The Turkish military organisationbased upon Bagdad had gone to pieces. While the move upon Bakuba was being made,another was taking place towards Feludja on theEuphrates. As a glance at the map will show, near toBagdad the two great rivers of Mesopotamia swervetogether, and the distance here separating them is notmore than twenty miles. Since to command them is tocommand the communications of the country, it wasevident that the occupation of Feludja was insistent.Nor can it be supposed that the enemy would notstrongly have opposed this move had he been in asituation to do so. That it met with little oppositionwas the best possible proof of his difficulties. The remarkab

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