Sir Charles Townshend

…the 143-day siege of General Sir Charles Townshend’s British contingent at Kut (1915–16).

…than two weeks after General Sir Charles Townshend’s doomed army of 12,000 Indians started north in November 1915, they were stopped at Ctesiphon, then forced to fall back to Al-Kūt, which was surrounded by Turks in December and fell in April 1916. That disaster became a national scandal for Britain…