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Baku Offensive
Part of the Caucasus Campaign of World War I
File:File:Bakuroad.jpg British troops in Baku.
Date 11 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 Russian SFSR	Armenia United Kingdom Australia Canada New Zealand Centrocaspian Dictatorship White Russians Baku Commune German Empire Georgia
Commanders and leaders
Enver Pasha Nuri Pasha Mürsel Bey Halim Pasha Ali İhsan Pasha Kâzım Pasha Mammad Amin Rasulzade Ali-Agha Shikhlinski	Tovmas Nazarbekian Movses Silikyan Drastamat Kanayan Lionel Dunsterville General Dokuchaev Colonel Avetisov Nikolai Baratov Grigory Korganov Friedrich von Kressenstein Ilia Odishelidze Giorgi Kvinitadze
Strength
18,000 troops 22,000 troops	15,000 troops 1,000 troops 6,000 troops 600 troops Total: 22,600 troops 6,000 troops 3,000 troops
Casualties and losses
5,500 troops	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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