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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1919 Excerpt:... CHAPTER XII THE END IN MESOPOTAMIA Stubborn character of the Mesopotamian struggle--Results of British administration and reforms--Effect on the Campaign--Operations on the Persian border--Advance to Hit and defeat of the Turks at Khan Bagdadiya--Enemy attempts to cut communications with Persia--Battle at Tuz Kermatli--The Expedition to Baku--Political reasons for it--Operations on the route to the Caspian--Military failure of the Baku Government--Landing of the British Relief Force--The siege of Baku and the British evacuation--Preparations for advance to Mosul--Turkish defences on the Tigris--General Marshall's plan--Success of the British movements--Turkish retreat from Fat ha--The battle at Kalaat Shergat--The Turkish Vlth Army surrounded--Futile efforts to break out, and capitulation of the hostile forces--The March to Mosul--Success of the Mesopotamia operations--Lessons of the Eastern and Colonial Campaigns. In Mesopotamia, where the last stroke against enemy power in the East was delivered, the war proved stubborn to the close. Not even momentarily had GermanTurkish fortunes recovered from the blows dealt by General Sir Stanley Maude. That remarkable man, whose genius had been disclosed by difficulties, who had taken over the work when British prospects seemed at their lowest, and had been rewarded by shining and solid success, slept his last sleep in the burial ground outside the northern gate of Bagdad. But if ever it was thought at Constantinople that this loss would help to retrieve tottering German-Turkish fortunes, no hope was ever more consistently disappointed. In General Sir W. R. Marshall there instantly stepped into the place of Maude a successor cast in the same mould, and the work Maude had left incomplete went on along the same lines,...