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"This power struggle lead to the creation of the Mesopotamian Administration Committee under the leadership of Lord Curzon. Its main task was to determine who would govern the Basra and Baghdad provinces. Its ruling was a British, not Anglo-Indian, administration for Basra and an Arab authority for Baghdad. This decision would have wide ranging effects on the world, which still affect us today."
What 'wide ranging effects on the world' would it have? I don't see how its that huge of choice. Anyone know why the author said that? -- 24.7.128.51 02:02, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
Anywaysm to your point...I hope I knew. I never even thought that the "British government in India" acted as independently as it is stated. I think the words, "British governance in India" is better. Oh sorry, I left your point at another tangent. Erm, well if British-Indians controlled Baghdad, consider the following:
I'm sorry, but if anything, this should be a part of:
Iraq not India. So I'm removing the India task force thing. Tourskin 06:26, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
I'm working on a detailed rewrite of the advance on Baghdad and the entry into the city at User:Harlsbottom/Fall of Baghdad (1917). There's no point in having the map of the Second Battle of Kut here as it's of such a small scale as to be useless to anyone trying to visualise the advance from Kut to Baghdad. On the subject of maps, does anyone know of decent old maps of Baghdad? I'm struggling with trying to get to grips with the multiple references to different banks of the Tigris. Harlsbottom ( talk) 19:58, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
From the research I've done on the campaign, it becomes abundantly clear that Tigris Corps is a misnomer. The command to which the General Officer Commanding (Maude) was appointed was the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force (MEF), and under him he had I and III Indian Army Corps under Generals Cobbe and Marshall respectively. Tigris Corps had, of course, existed before the build-up of forces in the theatre. -- Harlsbottom ( talk| library) 13:04, 29 April 2008 (UTC)