Tough going in the mud. Noone thought that it would rain everyday in the Desert; or so the unofficial Seventeenth Crusade (in which the Suez Canal was used to attack the Turks from the South) ended like so many others, with Brits in chains.     La campagne britannique de Mésopotamie venait de subir la défaite à Kut, et la reddition aux turcs.