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Battle of Qurna
1914 battle of World War I / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Battle of Qurna, (3 to 9 December 1914) was between British forces and Ottoman forces that had retreated from Basra, which they lost at the Battle of Basra (1914) during the Mesopotamian campaign of World War I.
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Part of the Mesopotamian Campaign of World War I | |||||||||
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281 | 1,000 | ||||||||
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