jeur

Updated: July 7, 2026

These far too sanguine hopes were not destined to be fulfilled. General Townshend having captured the village of Jeur on November 19, 1915, marched against Nuredin Pasha's main defenses which had been constructed near the ruins of Ctesiphon, eighteen miles from Bagdad.

- The Story of the Great War, Volume 4 : Champagne, Artois, Grodno; Fall of Nish; Caucasus; Mesopotamia; Development of Air Strategy; United States and the War