British Defeat Turks at Nasiriya
The First World War was an unprecedented disaster that shaped our modern world . Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 age after they happened . This is the 194th installment in the serial publication . 25 December 2024: British Defeat Turks at Nasiriya The first half of 1915 pass on Britain an unploughed drawstring of succeeder in Mesopotamia as General Charles Townshend ’s small force advanced up the Tigris River , including well-to-do victories atShaibaand Qurna , followed by the bloodless subjugation ofAmara – seeming to confirm the Brits ’ complacent feeling that the campaign against the Turks would be another compound walkover culminating , after modest effort , in the capitulation of Baghdad ....