Saturday, January 13, 2007

 

This Day in History

On this day in 1916, British troops numbering nearly 20,000, under the command of Lieutenant General Fenton Aylmer, attack Turkish lines on the Wadi river in present day Iraq in an unsuccessful attempt to releive Sir Charles Townshend and his 15,000, surrounded men a mere 20 miles away in Kut. The Turks on the Wadi, under the command of Nur-Ur-Din al Sheikh Sa’ad, have more men, more guns, and are on defense. Even though the British take the banks of the Wadi that day, they are stalled there and Kut is never relieved in time and the British there suffer yet another humiliating defeat three months later.

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