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Mesopotamia
The region of the Tigris–Euphrates river system, roughly modern Iraq, where Britain, using mostly troops from British India, fought the Ottoman Empire. The campaign began with the Fao landing in 1914 to protect oil fields, later aimed at Baghdad, and ended with the Armistice of Mudros in 1918.
Mentioned in
- Chapter III The War of Movement §9 The War Spreads: Turkey, the Seas and the Colonies
- Chapter IV Deadlock §9 Mesopotamia: Townshend's Road to Kut
- Chapter V The Year of Attrition Overview§4 The Ottoman Fronts: Kut, Erzurum and the Arab Revolt§9 The Somme II: From Bazentin to the Ancre
- Chapter VI The Year of Revolutions §10 Baghdad, Beersheba and Jerusalem
- Chapter VII The Last Gamble §8 The Collapse of Germany's Allies
- Chapter VIII The Reckoning and the Remaking §9 Empire, Independence and the Wilsonian Moment
- Chapter IX In the Trenches §10 Other Fronts, Other Trenches
- Chapter XIII A World on Fire §5 The Ottoman Fronts: Caucasus, Mesopotamia, Sinai and Persia§6 The Empires' Soldiers§9 The Middle East Remade by Wartime Promises