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This is a question for any history buffs who might know, seeing as my Google searching has proved fruitless. I watched a multi-dvd documentary on the whole first world war, and a part of it dealt with a crazy campaign that the Ottomans launch to capture India from the British, I don't believe they ever got close to India and it was some time ago that I watched the series but I just wondered if anyone on NSG knew more about it as I am curious. I suspect it might be tied to the Caucasian campaign also.

This is a question for any history buffs who might know, seeing as my Google searching has proved fruitless. I watched a multi-dvd documentary on the whole first world war, and a part of it dealt with a crazy campaign that the Ottomans launch to capture India from the British, I don't believe they ever got close to India and it was some time ago that I watched the series but I just wondered if anyone on NSG knew more about it as I am curious. I suspect it might be tied to the Caucasian campaign also.

The people of the Caucasus Mountains were once an Empire?

The people of the Caucasus Mountains were once an Empire?

Sorry? I was talking about the Ottoman-Russian front in the Caucasus, with Armenia caught in the middle.

I doubt that the Ottoman Empire would have seriously attempted to take India. To try and take India would have required the involvement of the Persian Empire, and needless to say, they were virtually under the control of the British and Russian Empires at the time.

This is a question for any history buffs who might know, seeing as my Google searching has proved fruitless. I watched a multi-dvd documentary on the whole first world war, and a part of it dealt with a crazy campaign that the Ottomans launch to capture India from the British, I don't believe they ever got close to India and it was some time ago that I watched the series but I just wondered if anyone on NSG knew more about it as I am curious. I suspect it might be tied to the Caucasian campaign also.

I found this. It might help you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Eastern_theatre_of_World_War_I

This is a question for any history buffs who might know, seeing as my Google searching has proved fruitless. I watched a multi-dvd documentary on the whole first world war, and a part of it dealt with a crazy campaign that the Ottomans launch to capture India from the British, I don't believe they ever got close to India and it was some time ago that I watched the series but I just wondered if anyone on NSG knew more about it as I am curious. I suspect it might be tied to the Caucasian campaign also.

I am not aware of any such campaigns. In fact, after the war, it was the Indian muslims who started the Khilafat movement to restore the destroyed Ottoman caliphate.

All the Ottomans could do was threaten the sea route to India via the suez. The British Indian army was actively involved in Iraq and possibly in other theatres. So it was the Ottomans under threat from British India, not the other way around.

Not many people know that the Berlin to Baghdad railway (to connect oil fields to factories in Germany) was a primary reason why British sent troops to secure the oil fields of Iraq. It can be argued that oil was the reason then as well as now.;)

This is a question for any history buffs who might know, seeing as my Google searching has proved fruitless. I watched a multi-dvd documentary on the whole first world war, and a part of it dealt with a crazy campaign that the Ottomans launch to capture India from the British, I don't believe they ever got close to India and it was some time ago that I watched the series but I just wondered if anyone on NSG knew more about it as I am curious. I suspect it might be tied to the Caucasian campaign also.
OK, the Ottomans were basically stopped in the Middle East by our forces, which isn't really all that far from India, but it's still quite a trek. But aye, IIRC the Ottoman empire wanted to make a probe for India at Germany's behest, essentially to take British troops away from Europe and Africa.

There's a multi-DVD epic by the name of Lawrence of Arabia which deals with our response :p

Not many people know that the Berlin to Baghdad railway (to connect oil fields to factories in Germany) was a primary reason why British sent troops to secure the oil fields of Iraq. It can be argued that oil was the reason then as well as now.;)
Everyone had plans for a railway of some kind back then to get to the oilfields, even the Russians, although to be fair there was a lot of unexplored ground in the Russian empire which has only fairly recently been discovered to contain oil.