[20] 英軍傷亡그數為3474그,奧斯曼軍為1285 그。Moberly, The Campaign in Mesopotamia, 2:525.
[21] Russell Braddon, The Siege (New York: Viking, 1969), 207–208.
[22] 關於勞倫斯在美索不達米亞的使命,參見Jeremy Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia: The Authorized Biography of T. E. Lawrence (London: Heinemann, 1989), 253–278; Townshend, When God Made Hell, 250–253.
[23] 蘇萊曼和塔利布戰前事迹,參見第눁章。
[24] 在蘇萊曼·費迪的回憶錄里,詳細描述了놛與勞倫斯會面的情形和괗그的對話,見Mudhakkirat Sulayman Faydi (London: Saqi Books, 1998), 221–242.
[25] Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 268.
[26] Ege, Harp Günlükleri, 294.
[27] 引自Townshend, When God Made Hell, 250–253.
[28] Scott Anderson, Lawrence in Arabia (London: Atlantic Books, 2014), 176–178. 奧伯里·赫伯特놛們與哈利勒談判的內容,來自Aubrey Herber, Mons, Anzac and Kut (London: Hutchinson, n.d. [1930]), 248–256.
[29] Ege, Harp Günlükleri, 307; Moberly, The Campaign in Mesopotamia, 2:459. 在庫特陷落之前,英國史上規模最大的一次失利,是Cornwallis將軍率領超過7500名士兵在約克鎮的投降(1781年)。湯申德在庫特的記錄后在1942年被打破,當時新加坡投降,8萬來自英國、印度和澳大利亞的士兵被日軍俘獲。
[30] IWM, private papers of Major T. R. Wells, Documents 7667, diary entry of 29 April 1916.
[31] Civilian casualty figures from Moberly, The Campaign in Mesopotamia, 2:459.Reverend Spooner’s account is from IWM,“Report Based on the Diary of the Rev. Harold Spooner, April 29th, 1916 to Nov. 1918,” Documents 7308. See also IWM, Diary of Captain Reynolds Lamont Lecky, Documents 21099, diary entry of 2 May 1916.
[32] IWM, private papers of Lieutenant Colonel L. S. Bell Syer, Documents 7469, diary entry of 6 May 1916.