Second Battle of Kut
The Second Battle of Kut was fought on 23 February 1917, between British and Ottoman forces at Kut, Mesopotamia.
The battle was part of the British advance to Baghdad begun in December 1916 by a 50,000-man British force organised in two army corps.
The British, led by Frederick Stanley Maude, recaptured the city, but the Ottoman garrison there did not get trapped inside : the Ottoman commander, Kâzım Karabekir Bey, managed a good-order retreat from the town of his remaining soldiers, pursued by a British fluvial flotilla along the Tigris River.
The British advance wore off on 27 February at Aziziyeh, some beyond Kut. After three days' worth of supplies had been accumulated, Maude continued his march toward Baghdad.
