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The Persian campaign or invasion of Iran (Persian: اشغال ایران در جنگ جهانی اول) was a series of military conflicts between the Ottoman Empire, British Empire and Russian Empire in various areas of what was then neutral Qajar Iran, beginning in December 1914 and ending with the Armistice of Mudros on 30 October 1918, as part of the Middle Eastern Theatre of World War I.
The Persians, numerically superior, were led by Abbas Mirza and fought the Russians. A Persian offensive into Georgia, with Persia's British and French-trained Nezam-e Jadid infantry, [4] initiated the battle. The Persians had also obtained European cannons from the French. [4] The Persians won the battle by moving faster than the Russians and ...
The Battle of Basra was a battle of World War I which took place south of the city of Basra (modern-day Iraq) between British and Ottoman troops from November 11 to November 22, 1914. The battle resulted in the British capture of Basra.
Battles generally refer to short periods of intense combat localized to a specific area and over a specific period of time. However, use of the terms in naming such events is not consistent. For example, the First Battle of the Atlantic was more or less an entire theatre of war, and the so-called battle lasted for the duration of the entire war ...
Battle of Dilman: Persian Campaign: 1915.04.27: 2nd Arıburnu (2nd Anzac Cove) Gallipoli Campaign 1915.05.02: Baby 700: Gallipoli Campaign 1915.05.06: 2nd Kirte: Gallipoli Campaign 1915.05.10: Action of 10 May 1915: Naval engagement in the Black Sea 1915.05.13: Sinking of Goliath: Gallipoli Campaign 1915.05.28: No.3 Post: Gallipoli Campaign ...
The siege of Kut Al Amara (7 December 1915 – 29 April 1916), also known as the first battle of Kut, was the besieging of an 8,000-strong British Army garrison in the town of Kut, 160 km (100 mi) south of Baghdad, by the Ottoman Army. In 1915, its population was around 6,500.
Despite being more of a skirmish than a battle, the Battle of Qurna is important because it gave the British a secure front line in Southern Mesopotamia. Basra was secure, and the oil refineries at Abadan in Persia were safe. [9] However, the Ottomans would try again at Shaiba and the British would later launch an offensive to take Baghdad.
Before World War II, the events of 1914–1918 were generally known as the Great War or simply the World War. [1] In August 1914, the magazine The Independent wrote "This is the Great War. It names itself". [2] In October 1914, the Canadian magazine Maclean's similarly wrote, "Some wars name themselves. This is the Great War."