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In the official report on the operations issued by the Government of India much stress was laid on "the intense heat, sand, and shortage of water", and "[t]he desertion of the camel-drivers and the severe climatic conditions so delayed and distressed the main body as to necessitate a withdrawal from Lahij". McKenzie notes that "we do not seem to have made such arrangements for transport and for water supply as would have prepared us for the difficulties which every experienced traveller knew we would have to face. . . But the severe heat of the climate, the potential treachery of hired Arabs, and the shortage of water were all of them factors which had been familiar from the beginning to the Indian authorities, and, one might suppose, ought to have been allowed for."

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Nakay702 · ベストアンサー

以下のとおりお答えします。
「アデンの戦い」での、英国軍の敗北の原因について述べています。

In the official report on the operations issued by the Government of India much stress was laid on "the intense heat, sand, and shortage of water", and "[t]he desertion of the camel-drivers and the severe climatic conditions so delayed and distressed the main body as to necessitate a withdrawal from Lahij".
インド政府が発行した軍事行動に関する公式リポートによれば、多大のストレス（圧迫）が「猛暑、砂漠、水不足」に起因したという。そして、「ラクダ隊の脱走や厳しい気候条件によって、軍の本体はラヒジュから撤退する必要に迫られたのだ」、という。

McKenzie notes that "we do not seem to have made such arrangements for transport and for water supply as would have prepared us for the difficulties which every experienced traveller knew we would have to face. . . But the severe heat of the climate, the potential treachery of hired Arabs, and the shortage of water were all of them factors which had been familiar from the beginning to the Indian authorities, and, one might suppose, ought to have been allowed for."
マッケンジーは次のように注記している。「経験豊かな旅行者なら誰でも、我々がある難問に直面するであろうことは分かっていた、そんな難問に備えるべく、然るべき輸送や給水のための手配を我々はしていなかった（怠っていた）ように思われる…。しかし、気候上の厳しい熱、雇用したアラブ人のやりかねない裏切り、水の不足などはすべて、インド当局にとっては最初からお馴染みであった要因であり、我々がそれを考慮に入れておくべきであったことは、誰でも想像できるに違いない。」

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