Siege of Kut | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-06-26

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00:00:53 1 Prelude
00:01:48 2 The siege
00:04:25 2.1 Relief expeditions
00:04:48 2.1.1 Battle of Sheikh Sa'ad
00:07:19 2.1.2 Battle of Wadi
00:08:10 2.1.3 Battle of Hanna
00:08:40 2.1.4 Later efforts
00:10:57 2.2 Surrender of the British army
00:13:52 3 Aftermath
00:15:37 4 See also



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The Siege of Kut Al Amara (7 December 1915 – 29 April 1916), also known as the First Battle of Kut, was the besieging of an 8,000 strong British-Indian garrison in the town of Kut, 160 kilometres (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. Historian Christopher Catherwood has called the siege "the worst defeat of the Allies in World War I".