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Baku Offensive
Part of the Caucasus Campaign of World War I
File:File:Bakuroad.jpg
British troops in Baku.
Date11 February - 30 October 1918
Location
Eastern Ottoman Empire, Caucasus, northern Persia
Result Ottomans capture Baku but are forced to surrender after the armistice is signed.
Belligerents
 Ottoman Empire
Azerbaijan Azerbaijan
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Russian SFSR

Armenia Armenia
United Kingdom United Kingdom

  • Australia Australia
  • Canada Canada
  • New Zealand New Zealand
Centrocaspian Dictatorship
Russia White Russians
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist RepublicBaku Commune
 German Empire
Democratic Republic of Georgia Georgia
Commanders and leaders
Ottoman Empire Enver Pasha
Ottoman Empire Nuri Pasha
Ottoman Empire Mürsel Bey
Ottoman Empire Halim Pasha
Ottoman Empire Ali İhsan Pasha
Ottoman Empire Kâzım Pasha
Azerbaijan Mammad Amin Rasulzade
Azerbaijan Ali-Agha Shikhlinski
Armenia Tovmas Nazarbekian
Armenia Movses Silikyan
Armenia Drastamat Kanayan
United Kingdom Lionel Dunsterville
General Dokuchaev
Colonel Avetisov
Russia Nikolai Baratov
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Grigory Korganov
German Empire Friedrich von Kressenstein
Democratic Republic of Georgia Ilia Odishelidze
Democratic Republic of Georgia Giorgi Kvinitadze
Strength
Ottoman Empire 18,000 troops
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic 22,000 troops
Armenia 15,000 troops
United Kingdom 1,000 troops
6,000 troops
Russia 600 troops
Total: 22,600 troops
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic 6,000 troops
German Empire 3,000 troops
Casualties and losses
Ottoman Empire 5,500 troops United Kingdom 200

The Baku Offensive was the final and only successful offensive the Ottoman Empire carried out in World War I. The offensive was a result of the Russian Revolution and Enver Pasha's determination to create a Turkic state in the Caucasus in the midst of the turmoil. The United Kingdom and Germany were alarmed by this unprecedented operation and both sent expeditionary forces to the Caucasus to stop the Ottomans from taking the oil rich Baku region. However both failed to do so as the numerically superior Ottoman forces defeated them in Baku and Georgia respectively.

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