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A hundred years ago, Indian soldiers in a WWI siege chose death over horsemeat


A hundred years ago, Indian soldiers in a WWI siege chose death over horsemeat
The British Indian Army suffered many miseries in Kut in Iraq. Starvation was one.
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Kut Al-Amara was an unremarkable town nestled in a bend in the Tigris river, in what is today Iraq. Its history was thin, virtually non-existent, until it became the place of a great military defeat.
On April 29, 1916, approximately 13,000 starving Indians and Britons trapped inside the town gave themselves up to the Ottoman army. They had been under siege for nearly five months, during which they had braved enemy fire, loss of comrades and gnawing hunger. For their ambitious commander, Major General Charles Townshend, it was a career-ending humiliation, but for many of the ordinary Indian soldiers the surrender meant much worse: they would never see their homes again. ....

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