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Title: The Times history of the war
Year: 1914 (1910s)
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Subjects: Times history of the war Times history and encyclopaedia of the war World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: London
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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d the enemys njtreatleverely harnHsuring th*»se HucceHsfuJ and ereditabW) o(»eni-bions by land anl water the Turks laid not been might bear another meaning. The message ranas follows : I wish to express my admiration for thegallant manner in which the naval and militaryforces cooperating under your command haveso successfully overcome the repeated attacksof an enemy sujKsrior in numb(^rs. Please con-vey to all ranks rny ajjpreciation of the spirit andendurancethey have shown during the pastmonth. At borne we all watch with pride andintenjst the work and ()rogress of your column. If the officers and men of the expedition wereinclined to think (hat (hriir doings had beenrivorlookfid by the War OHiee and the Britishpublic, this warm and timely message musthave gone fur to remove the feeling. But. real advances were now to begin, and itseems deniral>le at this point to examine theposition in which Hir John Nixon found himself •21-2 77//-; TIMES HISTOltY OF Till: II.I/.
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ABANDONED TRENCHES ALONG THE TIGRIS. before his troops received the order to goforward. As the British force under his command, nowconsisting apparently of two divisions, con-fronted an enemy based on Baghdad, and theTurkish provinces beyond Baghdad, it wasfacing north-west. Its own base was the sea,lying to the south-east, from which supphesand reinforcements could reach it by the deep-water channel of the Shatt-al-Arab, running upto and beyond its headquarters at Basra. Theleft of the force consisted of the garrisonholding Shaiba and perhaps Nakhaila. Infront of the centre was an advanced detaclimentat Kurna. On the right was a brigade atAhwaz in Persia. Tlie position may be cona-pared to an irregular fan, of which the handlewas the Shatt-al-Arab, and the points of theopen spokes, going from east to west, wereAhwaz on the Karun, Kvu-na on the Tigris, andNakhaila on the Euphrates. The enemy had aforce at Nasrieh on the Euphrates, facing theBritish left, but at a distance of 70 or 80m

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