Word: amara
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...Turkish brigade (5,000 men) is led by Brigadier General Tahsin Yazici, who likes to twit British war correspondents with such remarks as, "Yes, I remember your General Townshend well. We took him prisoner at Kut-el-Amara [in 1916]." Last week Yazici's smart, tightly disciplined Turks were thrown in to hold the line the R.O.K.s abandoned east of Kaechon. Estimated Turkish casualties at week's end: 500. A U.S. doctor said it seemed that a Turk waited until he had at least three wounds before he reported to the medics...
...British Empire; he had to dispose of Britain's fate in the Far East. In less than an hour he had to make up his mind to do something that no sizable British Army had done since Major General Sir Charles Townshend capitulated at Kut-el-Amara in Mesopotamia in 1916, and, before that, since Cornwallis gave up at Yorktown in 1781. He had a matter of minutes in which to decide whether to shake Winston Churchill's Cabinet, to depress all of Britain, to undermine the Allies' faith in British fighting...
When General Maude took command of the army of the Tigris, some months after the fall of Kut-el-Amara, he found that the most difficult problem facing him as he planned his advanced on Bagdad was the absolute lack of an effective system of rail communication. It was this condition which prevented the relief of Kut during the winter of 1916, the river transportation proving inadequate. Under the direction of the new commander a complete railroad system was built from the Persian Gulf to Amara, and in addition the British Army was reorganized on a basis superior to that...