1916 British attempt to re-supply besieged garrison at Kut failed Last attempt to relieve
forces there
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1916 British attempt to re-supply besieged garrison at Kut failed Last attempt to relieve
forces there
1915 UK Gen Townshend ordered by Mesopotamia cmdr Gen Nixon to take Qurna and Amara
(Musings On Iraq review When God Made Hell, The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of Iraq, 1914-1921)
1915 Lord Curzon asked why British should promise Basra and Baghdad vilayets to Arabs if they
were fighting on Ottoman side
1917 British military governor in Baghdad banned weapons and ammunition for public and
imposed curfew on city
1916 British attempt to re-supply besieged garrison at Kut failed Last attempt to relieve forces there