Battle of Sharqat

Battle of Sharqat
Part of the Mesopotamian campaign of World War I
Date28–30 October 1918
Location
Shirqat, Ottoman Iraq
Result British–Assyrian victory
Belligerents

British Empire

Assyrian volunteers		 Ottoman Empire
Commanders and leaders
Sir William Raine Marshall,
Sir Alexander Cobbe,
Malik Yaqo
Agha Petros		 İsmail Hakkı Bey
Strength
2 infantry divisions, 2 cavalry brigades "Tigris Group" (Dicle Grubu) of Ottoman Sixth Army; five infantry regiments and one rifle regiment
Casualties and losses
1,800 11,322–13,000 POW with many more wounded and killed

The Battle of Sharqat (28–30 October 1918) was fought between the British and the Ottoman Empire in the Mesopotamian Campaign during World War I, It was the last battle fought in Ottoman Iraq during the First World War and one of the final conflicts between the British Empire and the Ottoman Empire.

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