Battle of Sharqat
Part of Mesopotamian Campaign (World War One)
Date: October 23—30, 1918 Location: North of Baghdad, present-day Iraq Result: British victory
Combatants
British Empire	Ottoman Empire
Commanders
Sir William Raine Marshall Sir Alexander Cobbe	Ismail Hakki Bey
Strength
?	Ottoman 6th Army
Casualties
1,800	18,000 POW

Mesopotamian Campaign
Fao Landing – Basra – Qurna – Es Sinn – Ctesiphon – Umm-at-Tubal –1st Kut –Shiekh Sa'ad – Wadi – Hanna – Dujaila – 2nd Kut – Baghdad – Samarrah Offensive – Jebel Hamlin – Istabulat – Ramadi – Sharqat

The Battle of Sharqat was the final action between the British and the Ottomans during the Mesopotamian Campaign in World War One. It took place in October 1918.

Anticipating a Turkish armistice, British Premier David Lloyd George ordered Sir William Marshall, Commander-in-Chief on the Mesopotamian front, to remove any residual Ottoman presence from that theater and capture the oil fields near Mosul.

So an Anglo-Indian expeditionary force, led by Sir Alexander Cobbe, left Baghdad on October 23, 1918 and in just 39 hours covered 120 kilometers (77 miles) to the Little Zab River, where the Ottoman 6^th Army, led by Ismail Hakki Bey was awaiting them.

But, seeing his army's rear threatened, Hakki Bey withdrew another 100 kilometers (60 miles) to the north to Sharqat, where Cobbe attacked him on October 29. On the following day the Ottomans surrendered.

On November 14, 1918, Mosul was peacefully occupied by a British Indian cavalry division.