Battles
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The Mesopotamian Front
Updated - Saturday, 3 April, 2004
This section contains details of the major actions fought on the Mesopotamian Front - present-day Iraq - during the First World War.
These include the many epic struggles fought along the banks of the River Tigris; from the seemingly unstoppable advance of the British throughout 1915 to the resurgence of their Turk opposition in 1916 culminating in the British humiliation at Kut-al-Amara in April 1916.
British fortunes revived however with the appointment of Sir Frederick Stanley Maude as regional Commander-in-Chief, as success after success finally led to complete British victory in the region in October 1918.
Click here to view a map of pre-war Palestine and Mesopotamia.
 Capture
of Basra, Opened 5 November
1914 |
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Battle
of Qurna, Opened 3 December
1914 |
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Battle
of Shaiba, Opened 11 April 1915 |
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Capture
of Amara, Opened 31 May 1915 |
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Battle
of Nasiriyeh, Opened 27 June
1915 |
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Capture
of Kut-al-Amara, Opened 28
September 1915 |
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Battle
of Es Sinn, Opened 28 September
1915 |
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Battle
of Ctesiphon, Opened 2 November
1915 |
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Siege
of Kut-al-Amara, Opened 7
December 1915 |
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Battle
of Sheikh Sa'ad, Opened 6
January 1916 |
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Battle
of the Wadi, Opened 13
January 1916 |
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Battle
of Hanna, Opened 21
January 1916 |
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Battle
of Dujaila, Opened 8 March 1916 |
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First
Battle of Kut, Opened 5 April 1916 |
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Battle
of Khanaqin, Opened June 1916 |
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Second
Battle of Kut, Opened 13
December 1916 |
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Battle
of Khadairi Bend, Opened 9
January 1917 |
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Battle
of Nahr-al-Kalek, Opened 26
February 1917 |
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Capture
of Baghdad, Opened 11 March
1917 |
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Samarrah
Offensive, Opened 13 March
1917 |
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Seizure
of Falluja, Opened 19 March
1917 |
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Battle
of Jebel Hamlin, Opened 25 March
1917 |
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Battle
of Shiala, Opened 11 April
1917 |
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Battle
of Istabulat, Opened 21 April
1917 |
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Battle
of the Boot, Opened 30 April
1917 |
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Battle
of Ramadi, Opened 28 September
1917 |
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Capture
of Tikrit, Opened 5 November
1917 |
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Battle
of Sharqat, Opened 29 October
1918 |
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