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U.S. Military Mission visits Armenia in 1919
American Army Major General James G. Harbord, Head of a U.S. Military Mission to Turkey and Armenia, is greeted by welcoming committee upon the arrival of his train at a railroad yard in Armenia. He is seen conversing with two Armenian Apostolic Priests. They present him a document, which he views and then rolls up. Many other persons are present to greet the Harbord and members of his mission. Several wear the fez. A few U.S. soldiers are seen looking out the windows of the train. An Armenian officer steps forward to present a document to General Harbord.
U.S. Military Mission visits village and ancient church in Armenia in 1919
Camera pans across an open area in front village buildings seen in the background, in Armenia. The film is being shot during visit of American Army Major General James G. Harbord, Head of a U.S. Military Mission to Turkey and Armenia. General Harbord and members of his staff, accompanied by two local civilians,walk across the area, after visiting an ancient Armenian stone church, seen in the background. They walk past two small children.
American military mission camp and native carvans near Devegechid River in Turkey.
Automobiles, of the American Military Mission to Armenia, pass through the gateway of a city in Turkey. View of local people moving goods on pack animals and in carts, across a bridge over the Devegechid River in Turkey. Members of the Mission encamped on a plain. Smoke rising from their cooking fires near wagons. View from above of the mission vehicles and campsite, in background,near the river and bridge. Pack animals seem grazing near their burdens, removed and stacked in the foreground. A mission automobile moves past other elements of the expedition, as they break camp and get underway. Camera pans the barren hills and village houses atop a cliff.
Scenes of the so-called European Shore, from USAT Martha Washington, underway westward, through Bosphorus Strait.
Camera pans shoreline in vicinity of Trebizond (Trabzon), Turkey, on the Black Sea. Views are from the Ocean Liner, United States Army transport, USAT Martha Washington, as it carries passengers (unseen) westward, including members of the American Military Mission to Turkey and Armenia. Next, are shown scenes as the Martha Washington traverses the Bosphorus Strait, at its narrowest point, where the "Fortress of Europe" aka "Rumeli Castle" or "Fortress Rumeli Hisari" is seen on the so-called European shore.
British occupation of Constantinople (Istanbul) immediately after World War I
Sulimanie or Suleymaniye (Süleymaniye, Prof. Sıddık Sami Onar Cd. No:1, 34116 Fatih/İstanbul, Turkey) Mosque, Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul), Turkey, as seen from a British ship in the Bosphorus strait as British commence occupation of Constantinople at end of World War 1. Crew lining railings of a Turkish warship, flying the Ottoman Empire flag, underway in the Bosporus Strait. Scene shifts to a British two-stack battleship bristling with heavy guns, moving amongst several other warships in Turkish waters.
Members of U.S. Military Mission, to Turkey and Armenia, watch watch Kurdish workers building a bridge across the Euphrates River
Members, of the U.S. Military Mission to Turkey and Armenia, stand upon a bridge under construction over the Euphrates River, and watch Kurdish construction workers manually raising a heavy weight in a wooden pile driver at the river bank. Camera pans across the bridge.
