Open AccessDIE SANSUI CAMPAIGN
Author(s) -
Richard Cornwell
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
scientia militaria
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2309-9682
pISSN - 2224-0020
DOI - 10.5787/5-1-893
Subject(s) - empire , suez canal , ancient history , ottoman empire , spanish civil war , prime minister , state (computer science) , history , economic history , political science , first world war , law , politics , business , algorithm , international trade , computer science
EGYPT ON THE OUTBREAK OF WAR 1916
On 6 November 1914, after three months of steadily worsening relations, France and Britain declared war on the Ottoman Empire. This state of affairs found Britain with no comprehensive plan for defending her intorostJ in the Middle East, indeed tho prob- 10m3 posed so suddenly by Germany's onslaught in Belgium and France found the Empire with few trained troops to use elsewhere. Within two months of Britain's entry to the war she had pulled her regular regiments out of Egypt, and replaced them largely with Indian troops, who were eventually to bear the brunt of much of the fighting in this theatre." The defence of the Suez canal was of prime importance if the war effort of the British Empire was to be properly coordinated