The Battle of Ramadi was fought in central Iraq late in September 1917 between the British and the Ottomans; it was part of the Mesopotamian Campaign in World War I. The 15th Indian Division was sent to the town of Ramadi, about west of Baghdad on the south bank of the Euphrates River, where an important Ottoman garrison was quartered. A defeat of that garrison would allow the British further advance along the river. There had already been an abortive attack on the town on 11 July, where the British forces were driven off and retreated to Dhibban at a cost of 566 casualties.