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Battle of Sharqat
Part of the Mesopotamian Campaign of World War I
Date
October 23–30, 1918
Location
North of Baghdad, present-day Iraq
Result
British-Assyrian victory.[1]
Belligerents
British Empire
India
Assyrian volunteers
Ottoman Empire
Commanders and leaders
Sir William Raine Marshall, Sir Alexander Cobbe, Malik Yaqo Agha Petros
İsmail Hakkı Bey
Strength
2 infantry divisions, 2 cavalry brigades
"Tigris Group" (Dicle Grubu) of Ottoman Sixth Army; five infantry regiments and one rifle regiment[2]
Casualties and losses
1,800
11,322[citation needed]–13,000[2] POW with many more wounded and killed[citation needed]
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Mesopotamian campaign
Fao Landing
Basra
Qurna
Shaiba
Amara
Karbala
Nasiriyah
Es Sinn
Ctesiphon
Umm at Tubal
1st Kut
Sheikh Sa'ad
Wadi
Hanna
Dujaila
Hilla
2nd Kut
Baghdad
Samarra offensive
Jebel Hamlin
Istabulat
1st Ramadi
2nd Ramadi
Najaf
Khan Baghdadi
Sharqat
The Battle of Sharqat (October 23–30, 1918) was fought between the British and the Ottoman Empire in the Mesopotamian Campaign in World War I, which became the last conflict between the belligerents before of the signing of the Armistice of Mudros.
^"Assyrians and Two World Wars". November 13, 2020. ISBN 9798564099837.
^ abDicle Grubu 7, 9, 43, 18 ve 22'nci Alaylarla Avcı Alayından oluşmuştur., Gazi Mustafa Kemal, "1'nci Ordu Komutanı Ali İhsan Paşa'nın yarattığı durum", Nutuk. (in Turkish)
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