Enemy on the Euphrates : the British occupation of Iraq and the Great Arab Revolt, 1914-1921 9780863567629, 0863567622

Between July 1920 and February 1921, in the territory known as Mesopotamia--now the modern state of Iraq--an Arab uprisi

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Enemy on the Euphrates : the British occupation of Iraq and the Great Arab Revolt, 1914-1921
 9780863567629, 0863567622

Table of contents :
Indications of oil --
Lieutenant Wilson's first mission --
'Protect the oil refineries' --
Arab mobilisation on the Euphrates --
The Jihad defeated --
Pacifying Arabistan --
Imperial objectives in the east --
The menace of Jihad and how to deal with it --
The lieutenant from Mosul --
The peculiar origins of an infamous agreement --
Two British defeats but a new ally --
Colonel Leachman and Captain Lawrence --
Mosul and oil --
'Complete liberation' --
Najaf 1918 : first uprising on the Euphrates --
Britain's new colony --
The oil agreements --
The independence movement in Baghdad --
General Haldane's difficult posting --
Trouble on the frontiers --
The drift to violence --
The Revolution begins --
Discord and disputation --
General Haldane's Indian Army --
'The situation has come to a head' --
The destruction of the Manchester column --
'Further unfavourable developments' --
The structures of insurgent power --
Trouble on the home front --
The siege of Samawa --
Defeat --
A death on the Baghdad Road --
The punishment --
A 'friendly native state'.

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