1-646-711 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

British troops on the way to Baghdad, First World War, 1917, (c1920). The British under General Maude captured Baghdad in 1917. Then under the Ottoman Empire, Baghdad became part of the kingdom of Iraq created in 1921. Illustration from The Illustrated War Record of the Most Notable Episodes in the Great European War 1914-1918, seventh edition, (The Swarthmore Press Ltd, London, c1920).