The railway line behind the Turkish centre was destroyed by the 5th Light Horse Brigade. Five days later the Turks signed an armistice and the 600-year-old Ottoman Empire was subsequently partitioned.General Sir Edmund Allenby led the British Empire to victory in the Middle East in 1918. Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, in full Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby of Megiddo and of Felixstowe, (born April 23, 1861, Brackenhurst, near Southwell, Nottinghamshire, Eng.—died May 14, 1936, London), field marshal, the last great British leader of mounted cavalry, who directed the Palestine campaign in World War I. They first captured and destroyed the railway station at Mudawara, finally cutting the Hejaz Railway,These various deceptions could not have been successful, without the Entente forces' undisputed air supremacy west of the Jordan.
It was possible to find food and forage for three cavalry divisions; 20,000 men and horses "without depriving the inhabitants of essential food. The campaign against them took place in the unforgiving climate of the Western Desert. The British infantry divisions were restructured as Indian divisions, each with a British nucleus. Nablus was captured about noon on 21 September by the 10th Division and the Australian 5th Light Horse Brigade from XXI Corps.
They fought actions at Benat Yakup, Overall, the campaign to the fall of Damascus resulted in the surrender of 75,000 Ottoman soldiers.After the fall of Damascus, the 5th Mounted Division and some detachments of the Arab Northern Army advanced north through Syria, capturing Aleppo on 26 October. A side view of the Handley–Page 0/400 of No. 184–291, 302–9, Part II pp. Waves of British and Australian aircraft repeatedly attacked the Ottoman forces. Login Many Ottoman soldiers fled into the desert but several thousand maintained some order and, having abandoned their wheeled transport, continued to retreat northwards towards Daraa on foot or horseback, under constant air attack.Allenby now ordered his cavalry to cross the Jordan, to capture Daraa and Damascus.
Slessor highlighted that at the Battle of Megiddo, 19–25 September 1918, in contrast to Amiens, air power had enabled the surprise and deception essential to General Sir Edmund Allenby… It evolved into a fast-moving mobile campaign, which resulted in Allied victory and the fall of the Ottoman Empire.During 1914-18, British troops fought the Turks in Mesopotamia.
By Eric H. Cline Assistant Professor of … A mixed mounted and infantry unit known as Chaytor’s Force captured the Jordan River crossings, while an artillery barrage softened up the Ottoman 8th Army.At the same time, the Ottoman 4th Army came under sustained attack in the Hills of Moab, at Es Salt and Amman. Allied aircraft again caused heavy losses on the retreating troops. That day, Liman ordered the Fourth Army to retreat to Daraa and Irbid, about 18 miles (29 km) to the west. Almost an entire Ottoman brigade (along with some German and Austrians) was massacred near the village of The 5th Mounted and Australian Mounted Divisions advanced directly across the Golan Heights towards Damascus. The Gate that Thutmose III saw in front of him. They captured the key strongholds at Afulah, Beisan, and Jenin. Sixty thousand British troops including two divisions, twenty-two infantry battalions and most of the yeomanry were sent to France as reinforcements. … The squadrons of the Under the Yildirim Army Group were, from west to east: the In August 1918, the Yildirim Army Group's front-line strength was 40,598 infantrymen armed with 19,819 rifles, 273 light and 696 heavy machine guns,Although the Ottomans had fairly accurately estimated the total Allied strength, Liman lacked intelligence on the Allied plans and dispositions and was forced to dispose his forces evenly along the entire length of his front. Allenby's Masterstroke, 1918 The Battle in Brief By the end of 1917, the forces of the Egypt Expeditionary Force commanded by British General Sir Edmund Allenby were firmly in control of Jerusalem. Moreover, almost his entire fighting strength was in the front line. As high commissioner for… The armies' only operational reserves were the two German regiments and the two understrength cavalry divisions.