Kut-El-Amara
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World War, the Turks and entering However, April ps in the town, end, surrendered channel Shatt-el-Hai leaves the Tigris and flows to the Euphrates at Nasiriyeh, at Nasiriyeh , the reputed site of the Garden of Eden.
Scene of fighting in World War, the British defeating the Turks and entering the town Aug. 29, 1915. However, April 9, 1916, the British troops in the town, under General Townshend, surrendered to the Turks. Meanwhile, however, the British had been gathering together a new army, made up mostly of East Indian forces, and efforts were made to KUVERA retake the town. Ascending the Tigris the British forced the passage of the Shatt-el-Hai on Dec. 13, 1915, and after repeated attacks, succeeded in inclosing the part of the Turkish army on the right bank of the Tigris, opposite Kut-el-Amara, Feb. 11, 1917. A few days later the Turks evacuated this bank altogether, and on the 23rd the British effected the crossing of the river above Kut-el-Amara. On the same day General Cobbe stormed the Turkish lines at Sanna-i-yat. These operations forced the Turks to abandon Kut-el-Amara and the British were thus able to re-enter it unopposed. The Turks lost at Kut-el- Amara and during the subsequent retreat 20,000 men and many guns. See WORLD WAR: TURKEY.
Hindu my- KUVERA (kövērä), in Hindu mythology, the god of wealth. He resided In the splendid palace of Alaka, on Mount Meru, and is borne through the sky by four attendants on a radiant car given to him by Brahma. He has no temples dedicated to him, and no altars.
On his head is a richly ornamented crown, and two of his four hands hold closed flowers of the lotus.
KWALHIOKWA (kwäl-ē-ōk'wä), a tribe of North American Indians of the Athabascan stock, formerly living on Willopah river, Washington, near the Lower Chinook Indians.