The story of the great war . WITH ALLENBY IN PALESTINE 263 The British also found deep joy in Allenbys victory because aBritish force had pushed up the Persian Gulf from India, hadinvaded Mesopotamia in the first years of the war, and had finallybeen captured in 1916 by the Turks. The British never acceptdefeat and they burned to wipe out the stain on their arms before. French Pictorial Service British Auxiliary Troops Advancing in Palestine a general victory in Europe should ingloriously overthrow theTurk in Asia Minor. People too found the military operations in the Near Eastromantically int
The story of the great war . WITH ALLENBY IN PALESTINE 263 The British also found deep joy in Allenbys victory because aBritish force had pushed up the Persian Gulf from India, hadinvaded Mesopotamia in the first years of the war, and had finallybeen captured in 1916 by the Turks. The British never acceptdefeat and they burned to wipe out the stain on their arms before. French Pictorial Service British Auxiliary Troops Advancing in Palestine a general victory in Europe should ingloriously overthrow theTurk in Asia Minor. People too found the military operations in the Near Eastromantically interesting, not because different things were beingdone than in France, but because the appearance of warfare wasdifferent. Aeroplanes and tanks in the desert, cooperating withArabs on camels, seemed certainly more romantic than they did 264 THE STORY OF THE GREAT WAR in France or Italy. The campaign was of the older type; therewere never enough troops on either side to make necessary atrench line. Eventually the one great crowning exploit of thecampaign was that in which the British cavalry in force rode aroundthe Turks and caught them in the rear, while AUenbys infantryattacked them in front. These are the probable reasons for theinterest of the public in these campaigns. The story itself is soon told. On April 29, 1916, General Town-shend surrendered at Kut-el-
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