Siege of Kut
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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. Following the surrender of the garrison on 29 April 1916, the survivors of the siege were marched to imprisonment at Aleppo, during which many died.[5] Historian Christopher Catherwood has called the siege "the worst defeat of the Allies in World War I".[6] Ten months later, the British Indian Army, consisting almost entirely of newly recruited troops from Western India, conquered Kut, Baghdad and other regions in between in the Fall of Baghdad.
Siege of Kut | |||||||
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Part of the Mesopotamian Campaign of World War I | |||||||
Charles Townshend and Halil Pasha after the fall of Kut | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
United Kingdom | Ottoman Empire | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Charles Townshend |
Nureddin Pasha Halil Pasha C.F. von der Goltz | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
45,000 besieged in Kut | 25,000 (December 1915)[1] | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
30,000 dead or wounded[2] 13,164 captured including 6 generals[3] | 10,000 men[4] | ||||||