What the records say
- When
- 13 Jan 1916
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 32.63° N, 46.19° E
- Description
- 1916 siege
- War
- World War I
Battle of Wadi (1916)
1916 siege
The Battle of Wadi, occurring on 13 January 1916, was an unsuccessful attempt by British forces fighting in Ottoman Iraq during World War I to relieve beleaguered forces under Sir Charles Townshend then under siege by the Ottoman Sixth Army at Kut-al-Amara.
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- Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “WWI: Battle of Wadi – Ottoman Empire forces defeat the British, during the Mesopotamian campaign in modern-day Iraq”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “In der Schlacht am Wadi erringen die Osmanen unter Nureddin Pascha und Colmar von der Goltz einen taktischen Sieg gegen die britisch-indischen Truppen”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page