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Colonial Actions
In Middle East
- This theatre mainly involved British and Imperial forces to defeat the Ottoman Turks and open up a resupply route to their Russian allies
- Gallipoli
- Mesopotamia (Iraq)
- A British Indian Army invaded and travelled up the Tigris
- Egypt and Palestine
- British and Imperial forces fought their way up the Mediterranean coast
- Joined by Lawrence of Arabia’s Arab Revolt
- Contradictory promises of land allocation post-war complicates map or region.