{"id":29473,"date":"2015-01-02T03:00:54","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T08:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=29473"},"modified":"2020-08-15T17:21:44","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T21:21:44","slug":"the-ottoman-disaster-the-battle-of-sarikamish-i-the-great-war-week-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/01\/02\/the-ottoman-disaster-the-battle-of-sarikamish-i-the-great-war-week-23\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ottoman Disaster &#8211; The Battle of Sarikamish I THE GREAT WAR Week 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ew39InPunOY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Published on 1 Jan 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Champagne offensive is still going on the Western Front without any side gaining a decisive advantage. In the Caucasus, Enver Pasha is showing how far he&#8217;s willing to go to achieve his goals. Against his military advisors\u2019 recommendations, he decides to send more and more troops to Sarikamish. Without supplies and with temperatures constantly below -20 degrees, thousands of them freeze to death before even reaching the frontline. When the Russians finally encircle the Ottoman Troops, defeat is inevitable. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on 1 Jan 2015 The Champagne offensive is still going on the Western Front without any side gaining a decisive advantage. In the Caucasus, Enver Pasha is showing how far he&#8217;s willing to go to achieve his goals. Against his military advisors\u2019 recommendations, he decides to send more and more troops to Sarikamish. Without [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,7,370,5,1119,246],"tags":[1393,1112],"class_list":["post-29473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-history","category-middle-east","category-military","category-russia","category-ww1","tag-ottomanempire","tag-thegreatwar"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7Fn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29474,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29473\/revisions\/29474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}