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to the Ottoman army, after a 6-month siege, on April 29. This historic vic-
tory, welcomed with jubilation at all Ottoman fronts, provided a great moral

boost to the Turks, while causing great shock in Europe. The British news-
papers would cover the Turkish victory on their front pages calling the inci-

dent 'the biggest humiliation for the British after Gallipoli...'

British historian James Morris would call the defeat at Kut 'the most ab-
ject capitulation in Britain's military history'. Christopher Catherwood, an-
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other British historian calls this defeat 'the worst defeat of the Allies in World

War I.' 109

Halil Pasha's words in the army diary of April 29, 1916 beautifully sum-
marizes the Kut Al Amara victory:

To my army;

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