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1
The Mesopotamian campaign WWI
  • David Pogrebeshky and Jakob Muratov

2
Who?
  • British Empire
  • French Empire
  • Imperial Russia
  • Ottoman Empire
  • - Sick man of Europe

V.S.
3
Western Asia/Mesopotamia
4
Sykes Picot Agreement 1916
  • Secret agreement between Britain and France
  • Approved by Russia

5
The Capture of Baghdad
  • After the Kut-al-Amara triumph, Anglo-Indian
    forces under rule of Sir Frederick Stanley
  • Help political value more than strategic, seen as
    the symbolic abdication of Turkish involvement in
    Persia.
  • The British were meet with joy, and the battle
    produced the Proclamation of Baghdad were the
    famous line was spoken our armies do not come
    into your cities and lands as conquerors or
    enemies, but as liberators

6
Battle of Sharqat
  • Decisive British victory, final battle for the
    Mesopotamian Front.
  • October 23-30, 1918
  • British campaign stopped, but due to victory in
    Palestine and Bulgaria Lloyd Georges government
    ordered to remove remaining Turkish influence.
  • Sir William Marshall secured of the Mosul
    oilfields
  • 18000 Turkish POW were taken
  • Mosul oilfields ? peacefully taken by Indian
    cavalry two weeks after the Sharqat battle ,
    British took control on 1918

7
Result, Aftermath and Importance
  • The Mesopotamian Front along with another Middle
    Eastern fronts greatly eradicated Ottoman rule
    and resulted in the collapse and defeat of the
    Ottoman Empire.
  • The British Mandate in Mesopotamia
  • Mosul was a point of debate and further conflict
    because of oil. Later, 1923 the Republic of
    Turkey demanded authority.
  • Shock by the local population, rebellion against
    the British
  • Treaty of Serves
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