1916-15 — Battle of Khanaqin

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📚 Bibliography (Expanded & Linked):📚 Bibliography (Expanded & Linked)

1. British Official History of the War — Mesopotamia Campaign, 1914–1918.

2. Townshend, Charles V.F. My Campaign in Mesopotamia. London, 1920.

3. Rogan, Eugene. The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East, 1914–1920. Basic Books, 2015.

4. Erickson, Edward J. Ottomans and Armenians: A Study in Counterinsurgency. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

5. National Archives (UK). “Mesopotamia Operations, 1916.”

6. Imperial War Museum — Mesopotamia Collection.

7. Wikipedia contributors. “Battle of Khanaqin.” Wikipedia.

(Accessed October 7, 2025.)

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🎵 Creative Commons Music

“Mahmudiye March” (Traditional Ottoman military march, 19th c.) — Public Domain via IMSLP / Wikimedia Commons.

Alternate: “British Infantry March in the East” — Public Domain, British Pathé archives.

The British Grenadiers. Performed by The Bands of the Household Division.

Released by Regimental Recordings, London.

SoundCloud, track link: https://soundcloud.com/regimentalrecordings.

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