British Indian forces under Alexander Cobbe were dispatched to engage the Ottoman Sixth Army defending the line between Baghdad and Mosul in late World War I. After six days of retreat, the Ottoman army held south of Mosul with heavy casualties at the Battle of Sharqat. In which month of 1918 did this happen?

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October 1918. Baghdad and Mosul are both tied to the fighting of October 1918. British Indian forces moved up from Baghdad to engage the Ottoman Sixth Army at the Battle of Sharqat, where the Ottomans held south of Mosul at great cost near the end of World War I.