The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war . sians had retired by December. TheTurks, in turn, directed an expeditionagainst Tiflis. Gfand Duke Nicholas,who, despite his successes in Galiciaagainst the Germans and Austrians, hadbeen removed and was in command in theCaucasus. He met the Turks in Januaryand defeated them in sanguinary acti(m. Erzerum was taken aTid about a thirdof the Grand Dukes armv was sent fromthere against Trebizond, the chief port onthe Black Sea. Control of the road lead-ing to Bagdad, the fabled city of Ha-round al Raschid was accom
The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war . sians had retired by December. TheTurks, in turn, directed an expeditionagainst Tiflis. Gfand Duke Nicholas,who, despite his successes in Galiciaagainst the Germans and Austrians, hadbeen removed and was in command in theCaucasus. He met the Turks in Januaryand defeated them in sanguinary acti(m. Erzerum was taken aTid about a thirdof the Grand Dukes armv was sent fromthere against Trebizond, the chief port onthe Black Sea. Control of the road lead-ing to Bagdad, the fabled city of Ha-round al Raschid was accomplished andseveral other cities taken, and in April,the Russians entered Trebizond. There,as was the history of Russias every effort,the force of the expedition was events in Petrograd had hadtheir effect and the activities of the Rus-sians in that theater for the balance of thewar were of little effect. In the meantime, the British were tak-ing action which attracted little attentionat the time but later developed events ofgreat importance. An expedition was or-. Camouflaged Big Gun. Mounted on a speciallyconstructed railroad carriage, this big French 400m/m gun was ready to bang away at the Germanforces making the drive on the Sonime front. It wasexceedingly well camouflaged to prevent detectionby Boche aerial observers. ganized in India and began operationsalong the Tigris and Euphrates riverswith Bagdad as the first ol)jective andJerusalem as a later one. Thus, the out-let to the Persian Gulf and hence to theIndian oceans was to be kept out of Ger-man domination; the very eastern end ofthe Kaisers sought for chain of influencewas to be seized. The Euphrates and the Tigris unite inthe Shatt-al-Arab and flow into the Per-sian Gulf and the important city of Bas-ra was taken early in the campaigii. Thenthe advance on Bagdad was July of 1915, the British were withinstriking distance, and about 12,000 men,under Gen. Townshend, were dispatchedto capt
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