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  March 16th.--Your brilliant achievements and continued successes are a great delight and a great encouragement to all ranks under my command


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id: 19379
title: The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad
author: Thompson, Edward John
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  enemy by surprise, and reached Dujaileh, less than ten miles from Kut. Time was wasted in an orthodox but unnecessary bombardment. left of the railway as a flank-guard, and went forward under Captain Wilson went out for a few minutes to see a man in the second line, hit This was about 3 p.m. Wilson now left his aid-post, and we came up the line. had thirteen men wounded,'' said the Brigade-Major. were not in action this day, and every station on the Baghdad-Samarra 19th Brigade went on, and took up a position two miles in front behind machine-gun and rifle, torn with shell and shrapnel, away to Al-Ajik, possible I left our own men to him, and dressed wounded Turks, of whom mile to the Leicestershires'' left front, several lines of Turks The previous day two wounded Turks, a machine-gun officer and a Red


id: 28072
title: A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1
author: Perrot, Georges
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  Babylon a great number of men belonging to the different nationalities that bricks are found built into the walls to this day, upon which the Assyrian The great wall of Babylon was set up anew; so was the temple ruins of Babylon began to be used as an open quarry, the stone buildings heads to build palaces, they imported architects, painters, and sculptors, bricks, placed in horizontal courses round a centre of the same material. The Chaldæan palace, like the Egyptian temple, sought mainly for lateral speaking rested, so that, in Chaldæa, the foundations of a great building certain bas-relief that seems to represent one of those great buildings of great use was made of arched openings in Assyria, and the countries in its Fortresses, palaces, temples, all the great buildings of Chaldæa the Assyrian architect never placed his arches or vaults upon columns or bricks formed in different moulds according to their place in the vault,


id: 29631
title: Journal of a Residence at Bagdad During the Years 1830 and 1831
author: Groves, Anthony Norris
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  of my little boys, Mr. N., a true and dear person in the Lord, and he that glorious day especially, when the Lord shall come to be glorified commotions the Lord will move on his way, and the day of his coming events, we feel that we shall have quite met our dear Lord''s mind in _May 8._--The Lord has this day manifested that the attack of my dear We did feel assured that the Lord would spare our dear little united I am, I shall yet praise him who is the Lord of my life, and my God. The dear boys also keep up their spirits much better than the first little knowledge, and less love of my dear Lord, I wonder how he has _June 12._ _Lord''s day._--The wretched Pasha has just passed our house urge the heart forward to desire the day of the Lord to come, so


id: 17150
author: Hammurabi, King of Babylonia
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  the owner of the slave shall pay him two shekels of silver. slave has been seized in his hand, that man shall be put to death. constable, or tributary shall return to his field, garden, or house, and cut down a tree in a man''s orchard, he shall pay half a mina of silver. the marriage portion which she brought from her father''s house, and shall returned him the dowry that that man brought to the house of his fatherin-law, her husband shall have no claim on the marriage portion of that father''s house; the sons that are sons of the wife at the sharing shall wife in the goods of the father''s house, one shall assign the maidservant If a man has hired a working ox for one year, he shall pay corn and has not caused it to grow in the field, that man one shall put

title:
  The Oldest Code of Laws in the World The code of laws promulgated by Hammurabi, King of Babylon, B.C. 2285-2242


id: 17584
author: Palmer, Robert Stafford Arthur
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  suppose I shall be starting some time next week, but unless I hear I shall just have time to write you a line about our journey so far, I liked for my draft, I should choose to spend a day in trenches, mean?" or "The sentry shot an Arab one night soon after we got here I Two days ago we got the best news that we have had for a very long two days and marched twelve miles in the intervening night and having miles: we marched up the right bank, so our left flank was exposed to It took us nearly two hours to drag ourselves three miles and the men to hear they''ve reached Basra.) We got orders to march to D. for five days till they could ship them down the river. officers and men that fell within 200 yards of the Turkish trenches

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  Letters from Mesopotamia in 1915 and January, 1916 From Robert Palmer, who was killed in the Battle of Um El Hannah, June 21, 1916, aged 27 years


id: 18031
title: A Dweller in Mesopotamia Being the Adventures of an Official Artist in the Garden of Eden
author: Maxwell, Donald
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  AN OLD WORLD CRAFT: A TYPE OF BOAT UNCHANGED SINCE THE DAYS OF "BY BAGHDAD''S SHRINES OF FRETTED GOLD, HIGH-WALLED GARDENS, GREEN [Illustration: "A mysterious-looking furnace tower."] An old-world touch is given to the waters of Basra by the high-sterned steamer proceeding up-river may be kicking up a great fuss in the water Great buildings like Ctesiphon near Baghdad or traces of the vast [Illustration: AN OLD WORLD CRAFT, A TYPE OF BOAT UNCHANGED SINCE THE Very little of the Baghdad as we know it to-day is old. run two great rivers, bare but for the palm trees on their banks and pictured myself making my way across the river in a goufa or bellam and Of the two great rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates, the banks of the on hill and dale and plain." In irrigation lands like Mesopotamia it is watered the garden where the land was green and good.


id: 22103
title: With a Highland Regiment in Mesopotamia 1916—1917
author: Anonymous
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  Bareilly, having been in India since the end of the South African War. Of the fighting in that campaign, the 2nd Battalion had had its full night our column, with the Highland Battalion leading, marched through miles the lines could be safely held by one Brigade at a time, with [Illustration: The Regimental Sergeant-major In The Trenches. [Illustration: The Regiment In The Trenches At San-i-yat.] Commanding Officer addressed the Regiment and proclaimed the day a following day held the line down to the river where a counter attack Indians on our left the Regiment advanced in attack formation with As an attack on the enemy position was decided on, the Battalion the enemy advanced troops back with little loss, and during the night Officer, 2nd In Command, And The Colonel Watching The Regimental [Illustration: Ground Over Which The Regiment Advanced To Attack The arranged, who have been killed in action, died of wounds, disease,


id: 3834
author: Flecker, James Elroy
title:
  Hassan : the story of Hassan of Bagdad, and how he came to make the golden journey to Samarkand : a play in five acts


id: 7096
author: Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir
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  The Babylonian Story of the Deluge as Told by Assyrian Tablets from The Discovery of the Tablets at Nineveh by Layard, Rassam and Smith. The tablets that belonged to Ashur-bani-pal''s private Library and great collections of tablets are known, one short and one long. short colophon on the tablets of the King''s Library reads:--"Palace Tablets of the Legend of Gilgamish which included his translation the XIth Tablet of the Epic of Gilgamish, as it did in the reign of The Babylonian Legend of the Deluge as Told to the Hero Gilgamish by Tablets of the Gilgamish Series is given in the following section of the direction of the place where Uta-Napishtim lived, Gilgamish set Thereupon Uta-Napishtim related to Gilgamish the Story of the Deluge, 8. Uta-Napishtim said unto him, to Gilgamish: To the Third Tablet probably belongs the fragment in which Enkidu The story of the Deluge as told by Uta-Napishtim to Gilgamish has

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  The Babylonian Story of the Deluge as Told by Assyrian Tablets from Nineveh The Discovery of the Tablets at Nineveh by Layard, Rassam and Smith


id: 13665
title: War in the Garden of Eden
author: Roosevelt, Kermit
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  river from the main town, and the boat bridges were cut during the night, It takes a long time to level a town in the way it has been done After we had been occupying the town for a few days, orders came through times, and got back to town to find that my shooting had started all sorts having covered ninety-two miles in our windings--a good day''s work. miles away in the direction of Persia, close by a town called Kizil Robat. restful after a number of days'' hard work with the cars. On the night of March 25 we got word that the long-expected attack would took great pride in the car in which we generally rode. leading cars pursued to within sight of the town and came in for a good close to the town, we were ordered to return to a deserted village for the


id: 35615
title: The Treasure of the Tigris: A Tale of Mesopotamia
author: Mockler-Ferryman, A. F. (Augustus Ferryman)
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  "But, Sedjur," said Edwards, holding the young chief''s hand, "you have Edwards being placed on the right hand of the sheik, I on the left, and "Sheik," I said, "you are a great man, and chief of an important branch "A little sleep, sheik," I said, "would be a good thing." "I have stolen no horses at any time from any man," replied Edwards, "We shall be back in Baghdad in no time," said Edwards. "I know," said Edwards; "but we will look up Ali Khan some day, and set "Well," said Edwards, "I hope that this time we shall keep them, and "I cannot wait so long, old man," said Edwards irritatingly. "I have not told you, sheik," I said, "that this Daud and the other man "I must say," said Edwards, "that I do not like the look of things. "And also," said Edwards, "to the man who recovered the Golden Girdle of


id: 38319
title: By Desert Ways to Baghdad
author: Wilkins, Louisa Jebb
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  looked out on it, the muleteers, the Zaptiehs, and our men sat round Hassan and Rejeb, two silent men, talked together the whole night long Hassan went out to look for a place to pitch the tent, and came back to men''s little tent on to the big stones forming the wall of our house, "We must leave some for the men," she said, with a look of apology, as Arten would look nervously round, knowing from long habit that he the river wound its way slowly in and out round mud banks; the country "Yes," said X, "and a looking-glass hung on the wall of his tent, and "Arten," I said to him early in the day, "if you dare to give these men As we looked upon the great plain which stretched away all round until said; "we might stop at the next good place." I looked ahead


id: 38714
title: Carry On! A Story of the Fight for Bagdad
author: Strang, Herbert
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  "Rise, I pray you, brother," said Burnet in Arabic. Rejeb took his way to the south-east; Burnet set off north-west through "A new apprentice, barber?" said the customer, eyeing Burnet. Burnet ignored the man and looked only at the horse, admiring the more probable that they were Rejeb''s men, and Burnet was vexed that stronghold Burnet quitted it, riding the Turk''s horse, and accompanied Burnet in the centre, an Arab at a little distance on either side. his horse, he rode on beside Burnet, his men coming at a short interval While Rejeb was selecting the men, Burnet informed the machine-gunners Burnet confided the horses to the care of two of his men, and with the by the Arabs on shore, and one or two men, including Burnet himself, first sound of the guns Burnet ordered his men to throw themselves And later, when Rejeb and Burnet were alone together, the Arab thanked


