1922_1st.Ed._HALDANE Insurrection in Mesopotamia IRAQ Revolt 1920 BRITISH ARMY

Description: Title WE POST WORLDWIDE Please enquire for postage to your country Ctesiphon Books THE INSURRECTION in MESOPOTAMIA 1920 By: SIR AYLMER L. HALDANE EDINBURGH: First Edition 1922 Publisher/Year: EDINBURGH, William Blackwood, First Edition 1922. Binding: Original Cloth Hardcover, 22.5x14.5 cm. Pages: 352 Illustrations: 60 photo illustrations, 11 Maps. жжж Please see book CONDITION at end жжж Sir James Aylmer Lowthorpe Haldane (1862-1950) General Sir James Aylmer Lowthorpe Haldane was a senior British Army officer with a long and distinguished career. Born to physician Daniel Rutherford Haldane and his wife Charlotte Elizabeth née Lowthorpe, James Aylmer Lowthorpe Haldane came from a family of distinguished Scottish aristocrats based in Gleneagles. In 1882, at the age of 20, Aylmer was commissioned as a British officer of the Gordon Highlanders. On 18 February 1886, he was promoted to Lieutenant. Between 1894 and 1895, Haldane was part of the Waziristan Field Force and participated in the Chitral Expedition. Promoted to Captain on 13 Aug 1896, he was soon dispatched to quell the Afridis rebellion in the Tirah campaign for the next two years (1897–1898). He became aide-de-camp to the Commander-in-Chief East Indies in 1898 and then fought in the Second Boer War. While imprisoned in Pretoria during the Boer War, he planned the escape which made Winston Churchill famous. Haldane failed to escape at the same time and later complained of Churchill's lack of regard for those who should have escaped with him. However, Haldane later managed his own escape. Awarded the DSO on 20 May 1898, he was promoted to Major in 1902 and to brevet Lieutenant-Colonel on 24 July of that year. He became military attaché with the Japanese Army in 1904. Promoted to brevet Colonel, he was appointed a CB on 16 March 1906, receiving confirmation as a substantive Colonel in November. On 1 October 1909, Haldane was promoted to temporary Brigadier-General and in 1910 become Commander of 10th Infantry Brigade. He fought in World War I initially as General Officer Commanding 3rd Division, then part of the British Expeditionary Force. He was given command of 6th Army Corps in France in 1916. After the War he was appointed General Officer Commanding Mesopotamia 1920 remaining in that post until 1922; he retired in 1925. Haldane died on 19 April 1950, at his home in London and was buried at Brookwood Cemetery. ≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈ SCARCE ORIGINAL 1922 FIRST EDITION ESSENTIAL ACCOUNT on IRAQ 1920 REVOLT With Many Photograph Illustrations & Maps from over 100 Years Ago From Preface ... WITH the exception of a few additions here and there, most of which are in the final chapter, this account of the ` Insurrection in Mesopotamia ' was written at Baghdad between June and September 1921. I take this opportunity of expressing my cordial thanks to Group-Captain A. E. Borton and Flying Officer A. P. Ledger, Royal Air Force ; to my Aide-de-Camp, Lieutenant S. Grehan, and others, for the photographs which illustrate the pages that follow. A. Haldane London, 31st May 1922. From Conclusion ... IN my numerous journeys—and I have visited nearly every corner of Iraq—I have met and harangued hundreds of shaikhs, including those who stood by us during the insurrection, and others, a far greater number, who took up arms against us at that time. I can count among those with whom I have conversed, through the medium of my excellent intelligence officer and interpreter, Major Bovill, every shaikh whose name appears in this narrative of the disturbances. I have enjoyed their princely hospitality, and on one occasion spent an afternoon snipe-shooting with Shaikh Sha'alan Abu, whose arrest on the 30th June 1920 was the ostensible beginning of the insurrection. Amongst others I have met Yusuf al Suwaidi, a handsome courtly old gentleman, and rallied him on his modesty in repelling my advances to make his acquaintance (i.e., arrest him) in August 1920, and his passion for foreign travel ! With all his faults, I confess to a strong liking for the Arab, and I regret that on my arrival in Mesopotamia I was too much occupied with military matters, and too ill-informed regarding the political problem to go among the people with advantage. Whether I might have been able to effect anything towards staving off the trouble which soon followed I hesitate to say ; but the Arab, with all his innate respect for force, seems to me to be highly susceptible to tactful and sympathetic handling. A Middle Euphrates shaikh, when speaking to me of his fellow-countrymen, said with conviction, " The Arab is a slave, and requires a hard master ; give him the stick first, then the sugar." The method he advocated is probably correct, and the employment of any other would be accepted as weakness. Contents ... Chapters PREFACE FROM COLOGNE TO BASRAH FIRST IMPRESSIONS AFTER TAE ARMISTICE STORM CLOUDS THE FIRST EXPLOSION BAGHDAD TO TEHERAN MILITARY ENCUMBRANCES STATISTICS AND OTHER MATTERS THE OUTBREAK AT AND RELIEF OF RUMAITHAH THE DISASTER TO THE MANCHESTER COLUMN ALARUMS AND EXCURSIONS THE OPERATIONS AT HILLAH THE RETREAT FROM DIWANIYAH TAE RECOVERY OF THE HINDIYAH BARRAGE THE OPERATIONS NORTH-EAST OF BAGHDAD THE RELIEF OF KUFAH EVENTS IN THE RIVER AREA TAE RELIEF OF SAMAWAH THE OPERATIONS NORTH OF BAGHDAD THE OPERATIONS IN NORTH PERSIA THE DISARMING OF THE TRIBES THE REOPENING OF THE EUPHRATES VALLEY ROUTE A MARCH ACROSS THE SHATT-AL-HAI CONCLUSION APPENDICES ORDER OF BATTLE ADVENTURES OF OFFICERS RESPONSIBILITY OF OFFICERS STRENGTH OF TROOPS IN MESOPOTAMIA AND PERSIA LETTER FROM TAR CAPTAIN OF THE " GREENFLY ' TRIBES WHICH PARTICIPATED IN THE INSURRECTION MEMORANDUM REGARDING DISARMAMENT BRITISH, INDIAN, AND ARAB CASUALTIES NOTES ON ARAB WARFARE, WITH TWO DIAGRAMS DEMANDS FOR REINFORCEMENTS STATEMENT OF COMBATANT REINFORCEMENTS RECEIVED FROM INDIA INDEX Illustrations ... Lieut.-General Sir Aylmer Haldane Kut, Looking Down-Stream Kut, Looking Up-Stream Tel Afar—Political Office Tel Afar—From The East Tak I Girrah Pass Karind Camp Zakho Village Zakho Camp Tak I Bostan Manjil Pass—Southern Entrance Shaikh Sha'alan Abu Rumaithah—Buildings Defended Are Within White Line Rumaithah—Political Serai Camp Of Manchester Column From South-East Of Bridge Looking Towards Mounds Birs Nimrud Blockhouse No. 19, Baghdad Typical Mesopotamian Scenery (One Mile East Of Baghdad) The Fire Of 3rd August—Baghdad Part Of Hinaidi Cantonment, Looking East Diwaniyah And Camp Brigadier-General Coningham's Column Between Ibn Ali And Guchan Jarbuiyah Bridge, Looking Down-Stream Jarbuiyah Post, 4th August 1920 Hindiyah Barrage From The West Hindiyah From The South-East Bridge At Musayib From Left Bank Bridge At Tuwairij From Right Bank Bridge Over Diyalah River Near Baqubah Baqubah—Railway Station In Foreground Blockhouse And Regulator Of Ruz Canal Sharaban—Qishlah Or Old Turkish Barracks In Foreground Table Mountain Quraitu Railway Station Khan Nuqtah Baghdad From The South-West Kufah From The South-East, 4th October 1920 (Buildings Held By Garrison Are Shown Within White Lines) Block Of Buildings Held At Kufah By 108th Infantry. (Defence Vessel " Firefly " On The Left) The Cliff Which Gives Iraq Its Name Karbala From The East Basrah From Tier West Nasiriyah, Looking Up-Stream Khidhr Railway Station On Basrah-Baghdad System Balad Railway Station On Baghdad-Samarrah System Samawah Railway Station and Camp Samawah - the Disabled Armoured Train Fathah Gorge, Looking Up-Stream Samarrah From The East Country Near Shergat Mosul From The East Assyrian Warriors Arab Levies Arbil From The North-West Kirkuk From The West Najaf From The East Announcement Of Terms Of Surrender At Najaf Defence Vessel " Blackfly " Types Of Mesopotamian Boats Qalat Sikar Shattrah Maps And Plans Tel Afar The Advance To Rumaithah Camp Of Manchester Column Action Near Jarbuiyah Hindiyah Barrage Canal Head Defences Near Table Mountain Operations Round Hillah Kufah Garrison Samawah Action At Iman Abdullah General Map Of Mesopotamia And Part Of Persia Condition ... 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