Battle for Baku I
Troops of D Company, North Staffordshire Regiment, at the Mud Volcano. Bolstered by 10,000 Armenians, Russians, Cossacks and Tartars of wildly inconsistent reliability, the British at Baku found themselves defending a shrinking perimeter against Nuri Pasha’s larger expeditionary force. Britain’s main interest in the Baku region was the oil fields, such as this complex at […]
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