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Events on Tuesday 7 December 1915 1
1915Siege of Kut beginsBritish-Indian force besieged by Ottoman troops in MesopotamiaOn 7 December 1915 an Ottoman army trapped a British-Indian force under General Charles Townshend inside the town of Kut-al-Amara on the Tigris River. The siege continued into 1916 and ended in the largest surrender of British forces to that date.