Monday, November 23, 2015

The Explorers' Club, № CDLXXI

Operation AXIOM: The World War
22-25 November 1915: The Battle of Ctesiphon—A year-long advance into Ottoman Mesopotamia by British & Imperial troops is blunted amid the ruins of the ancient Parthian & Sassanid capital of Ctesiphon, twenty miles south of Baghdad, beginning a British retreat that would end in disaster.









Lest we forget.

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