The British were defeated by the Ottomans on the 29th of April 1916 in Kut (south of Baghdad), where tens of thousands of Anglo-Indian troops died or were wounded, and thousands more were taken prisoner, including their commander Sir Charles Townshend.
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In 1917, Al Rasheed Street was the first street to be electrically illuminated in Baghdad city.
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