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Adnan Harun Yahya

Townshend offered to give Halil Pasha a cheque for one million pounds

in addition to their weapons only so that he and his army could walk free.
Halil Pasha responded that the British weapons would be of no use to them

and dismissed the one million pound bribe offer as 'a joke'. When the Turks
captured a food and ammunition ship the British army sent to resupply their

besieged troops, the British had no choice but to surrender. If the ship had
reached its intended destination, the siege could have continued for another

two months. Turkish soldiers renamed the aid ship to 'Kendi Gelen' (literal-
ly meaning 'the one that comes itself'). The ship had three operational ma-

chine guns and joined the Ottoman transport fleet. 104

After Townshend surrendered, Enver Pasha graciously hosted him and

made sure that he lived in a villa in picturesque Heybeli Island until the war
ended.

In an article on The Telegraph's website on December 2, 2015, Patrick

Sawer published extracts from the diary of Lieutenant Henry Curtis
Gallup who was at Kut Al Amara at the time and

later taken as a prisoner of war by the
Turks. Sawer explains at the be-

ginning that the British had the

Turkish artilleries rewrote
the history of bravery
during the Siege of Kut.