Map of Syria, Palestine, Turkey, and Mesopotamia from the Baedeker 1912 travel guide Palestine and Syria with Routes through Mesopotamia and Babylonia and with the Island of Cyprus.
"After breaking through Ottoman lines at Sharqat on October 28, 1918, Marshall accepted Hakki Bey's surrender, taking 11,322 prisoners, at 7:30 a.m. on October 30—the same day an armistice was signed between Britain and Turkey, effective at noon on the thirty-first. In a painful reminder, for the Turks, of the shady way Churchill and Britain had begun the war in the Persian Gulf prematurely four years before (to the day), Marshall pushed on after the armistice was signed, reaching Mosul on November 2, 1918, in clear violation of the armistice terms. The reason was not hard to grasp: Mosul had been promised to France, but His Majesty's government no longer wished her to have it."
General William Marshall commanded British and Indian forces in Mesopotamia in 1918. Hakki Bey commanded the Ottoman Sixth Army. Sharqat lay on the Tigris River north of Baghdad.
The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908–1923 by Sean McMeekin, pp. 401–402, copyright © 2015 by Sean McMeekin, publisher: Penguin Books, publication date: 2015
1918-11-02, 1918, November, Ottoman Empire, Churchill, Winston Churchill, Mosul, Mesopotamia, Baghdad, Lake Van, Armenia, Mesopotamia 1915
