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Cycling along Utah beach, Normandy France. June 2010
Posted by: Graham Smith

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Dates in History

Mesopotamian campaign ends

14th November 1918

The war in Mesopotamia was over on 14 November 1918, 13 days after the Armistice of Mudros was signed, and the same day as the occupation of Istanbul.

In 1914 the British expedition to Mesopotamia set out with the modest ambition of protecting the oil concession in Southern Persia but, after numerous misfortunes, ended up capturing Baghdad and Northern Towns in Iraq. Initially the mission was successful in seizing Basra but the British under Generals Nixon and Townshend,… Read more at Pen & Sword...

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