1916 Gen Townshend surrendered at Kut 13,309 soldiers and followers taken prisoner
7,000 died in captivity British lost 33,000 casualties One of largest defeats for UK in WWI
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1916 Gen Townshend surrendered at Kut 13,309 soldiers and followers taken prisoner
7,000 died in captivity British lost 33,000 casualties One of largest defeats for UK in WWI
1916 UK offered Ottomans all the artillery and 1 mil pounds in return for letting British forces
leave Kut UK forces had been under siege in Kut since Dec Ottomans refused offer
1916 Gen Townshend cmdr at Kut wrote Turks about surrendering Townshend told to offer
money to allow his troops to go Turks wanted unconditional surrender
Klieman, Aaron, Foundations of British Policy In The Arab World: The Cairo Conference of 1921, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1970
At the end of World War I the English found themselves in possession of a large amount of Ottoman territory. London had made various promises to different groups which were often contradictory because it had no strategy for the region. In 1921 Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill organized a meeting in Egypt to attempt to find a solution to all these issues. The Cairo Conference came to shape much of the modern Middle East. That is the topic of Aaron Klieman’s Foundations of British Policy In The Arab World: The Cairo Conference of 1921. The author argues that Churchill was able to create a short term success for the British Empire which eventually collapsed.
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1916 British attempt to re-supply besieged garrison at Kut failed Last attempt to relieve
forces there
1916 Gen Townshend surrendered at Kut 13,309 soldiers and followers taken prisoner 7,000 died in captivity British l...