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Malleson mission British intervention in Transcaspia
Part of the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War
Location of the Transcaspian Oblast
Date
11 August 1918 – 5 April 1919
Location
Transcaspian Oblast (now Turkmenistan)
Result
British withdrawal in March–April 1919
Belligerents
Turkestan ASSR
British India Transcaspian Government Turkestan Army
Commanders and leaders
B.N. Ivanov
Wilfrid Malleson
Strength
c. 3,000 Bolsheviks (at Bairam Ali)
950 Anglo-Indians
19th Punjabis
c. 1,000 Transcaspian Mensheviks (at Bairam Ali)
Casualties and losses
unknown, but at least 1,000 casualties at Battle of Dushak[1]
86+ killed 213+ wounded
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Central Asian Theater of the Russian Civil War
Bukharan Revolution
Khivan Revolution
Petro-Aleksandrovsk
Tashkent Rebellion (1917)
Malleson mission
Bukhara operation (1920)
Basmachi movement
Khiva (1924)
The Malleson mission or British intervention in Transcaspia was a military action by a small autonomous force of British Indian troops, led by General Wilfrid Malleson, operating against Bolshevik forces over large distances in Transcaspia (modern Turkmenistan) between August 1918 and April 1919, in the context of the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War.[2]
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Bolsheviks early in the conflict. Malleson then sent an Anglo Indian unit to assist in what became referred to as the Mallesonmission. The combined Anglo-Indian...
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recorded a mission to Tashkent, from where the Bolsheviks forced him to flee. Another was General Wilfrid Malleson, leading the MallesonMission, who assisted...
returned to Bandar-e Anzali. In June, the Mallesonmission, an Indian Army force under General Wilfrid Malleson, established a base to the east of Bandar...
pp. 68–69. Malleson, pp. 62–63 Stanhope 1853, p. 344. Harrington 1994, p. 70. Malleson, pp. 63–65 Orme, pp. 175–176 Orme, p. 176 Malleson, p. 65 Harrington...
Revolution in Russia, the Mallesonmission was sent to Trans-Caspia and the Seistan Force became the Lines of Communication for the Mission from September 1918...
wounds. The two both received the Medal of Honor for their exploit. Mallesonmission – A force of 570 British and Indian soldiers defeated Soviet forces...
Transcaspian Government, who were assisted variously by the British MallesonMission and the White Russians for control of the region between 1918 and 1919...
served in Mesopotamia as part of Dunsterforce and the MallesonMission, although these missions were aimed at preventing Turkish access to the Middle...
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illegal Bolshevik rally. The last of the British force involved in the Mallesonmission left the Transcaspian region, bordering Russia. Soviet forces were...
commander to be knighted in that way for 200 years. Mallesonmission – General Wilfrid Malleson lead a force of 500 soldiers with the 19th Punjabi Regiment...
Noelle-Karimi (2014). The Pearl In Its Midst By Christine Noelle Karimi. Malleson, George (1878). History of Afghanistan: From the Earliest Period to the...
lucky for us that Coer Singh was not forty years younger. George Bruce Malleson, a 19th-century English officer stationed in India during the rebellion...
terminal of the Trans-Caspian railway, and hence support the British MallesonMission which was intervening in Turkmenistan. To prevent Baku and the oilfields...
Interior of the Earth. Its translation, credited to Frederick Amadeus Malleson, is more faithful than the Griffith & Farran version, though it, too, concocts...
(20 guns) Harvey (1998), p. 30 Harvey (1998), p. 31 Malleson, p. 35 Harvey (1998), pp. 31–34 Malleson, p. 38 Harvey (1998), pp. 35–36 Naravane, M.S. (2014)...
32. Retrieved 7 June 2019. "Arts Theatre Club - "The Way." by Constance Malleson (Colette O'Niel)". Times. No. 44851. London, England. The Times Digital...
3,000 Years Ago. Law, King & Law. p. 885. Tuker, Mildred Anna Rosalie; Malleson, Hope (1900). "Introduction to the Catacombs". Handbook to Christian and...