[may18]

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engagements. The Brits did not get going in Basra until after the Americans took Baghdad and by doing so, the resistance in Basra collapsed, allowing the British to finally take Basra in an anticlimactic battle after the game was already up.
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Just one small comment basra did actually fall just before bagdhad. (Official dates are the 7th and 9th respectively)

[Pukka Puck]

"Just one small comment basra did actually fall just before bagdhad. (Official dates are the 7th and 9th respectively"

I don't doubt your official dates, but I was watching Fox News very early on Saturday Morning when their embedded reporter was driving in the armored column that drove through Baghdad, blasting anything and everything that threatened them. For all intents and purposes, everyone knew the jig was up from that point on. That was April 5th.