Siege of Kut

When

7 Dec 1915 – 29 Apr 1916

Kind

Siege

Coordinates

32.51° N, 45.82° E

Description

1915 siege in the First World War

War

World War I

WWI siege

The siege of Kut Al Amara, also known as the first battle of Kut, was the besieging of an 8,000-strong British Indian 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.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “WWI: Mesopotamian campaign – The Siege of Kut ends with the surrender of British Indian Army forces to the Ottoman Empire at Kut-al-Amara on the Tigris in…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Turkish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Irak Cephesindeki savaşlarda, Kût'ül-Amâre bölgesinde, beş aydır kuşatma altında olan İngiliz birlikleri teslim oldu”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Die von dem deutschen Militärberater Colmar von der Goltz instruierten osmanischen Truppen beginnen mit der Belagerung von Kut”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Mésopotamie : les troupes indo-britanniques de Charles Townshend capitulent à Kut al-Amara”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Arabic), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “بدء حصار الكوت والذي استمر إلى 29 أبريل 1916”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

• World War I28 Jul 1914 · Interstate war · Deaths 17,000,000