The British commander in the field, Dobell, chose to attack Gaza, using a short hook move on March 26, 1917. Australian Light Horse troops marched unopposed into Damascus on October 1, 1918, despite there being some 12,000 Turkish soldiers at Baramke Barracks. It started with an Ottoman attempt at raiding the Suez Canal in 1915, and ended with the Armistice of Mudros in 1918, leading to the cession of Ottoman Syria. It was essentially a frontal assault on a fortified position, and it didn't work more through inflexibility in operations rather than plan but it cost of some 6,000 British casualties.
View this object. The First World War has often been understood in terms of the combat experiences of soldiers on the Western Front; those combatants who served in the other theatres of the war have been neglected. The Sinai and Palestine campaign of the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I was fought by the Arab Revolt and the British Empire, against the Ottoman Empire and its Imperial German allies. The Battle of Tulkarm took place on 19 September 1918, beginning of the Battle of Sharon, which along with the Battle of Nablus formed the set piece Battle of Megiddo fought between 19 and 25 September in the last months of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of the First World War. The climax of the battle was the last successful cavalry charge of modern warfare when two Australian Light Horse regiments (4th and 12th) charged across open ground just before dusk and captured the town. The Turkish government was quite prepared to sacrifice these non-Turkish provinces without surrendering and Germany, now free from the war in Europe, could assist them with more material and manpower. On 24 May, the German 73th, 75th and 99th divisions attacked the Indian 3rd and 7th division in Beirut. Karm Station pointed right to the heart of this system.
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This request was granted and by October, 1917, the British were ready for their next attack.
Exhausted by the war and increasingly unable to transport its remaining resources throughout a nearly global war front the empire opted to safeguard it's largely intact colonial possessions with a generous armistice from the equally exhausted Central Powers. The Sinai and Palestine Campaign during the Middle Eastern Theatre of World War I was a series of battles which took place on the Sinai Peninsula, Palestine, and Syria between January 28, 1915 and March 15, 1929. Alternative History is a FANDOM Lifestyle Community.
The retreating Turkish forces reorganized and established their defense lines around the important commercial center of Hims, the Yilderim Army Group under Mustafa Kemal was decided to hold the British there as long as it would take before German reinforcements could make their presence felt on the battlefield. On the 7th, the British attacked Gaza for the 3rd time and this time, the Turks, worried about being cut off, retreated in the face of the British assault.
Again, they retreated after two days of fighting August 3 - August 5, 1916. The Ottomans were economically bankrupt with enormous infrastructural and social problems that threatened to root the empire from the inside. Less than a year remained before he was forced out of the government. The British lines on the eastern margin of the canal held for three days before collapsing but the western margin continued to stand for another three weeks before the Ottoman Suez Expeditionary Force could cross the canal and capture the Egyptian side. The Ottoman forces were holding a rough line from the fort at Gaza, on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea, to the town of Beersheba, which was the terminus of the Ottoman railway that extended north to Damascus.
Here the British 3rd army relocated from Europe was going to support the Egyptian Expeditionary Force alongside 20,000 Arab rebels. It took a huge deal of Luftwaffe airstrikes to weak down the British positions. Germany was troubled with unrest in Eastern Europe alongside the increasing threat of communism.
Lawrence. An attempt by the Turks to form a defence of a place called Junction Station (Wadi Sarar) was foiled by a British attack November 13, 1917. However the 99th Division under Albert Heller which was covering their rear advanced on the city and after three days of intense combat managed to capture the city dealing enormous casualties to the British and massacring the arab opposition. Then in July, the Ottoman army tried another offensive against the Suez. During the subsequent pursuit, several substantial rearguard positions were attacked and defeated before Damascus was captured. The attack was successful and the majority of the Turkish garrison was captured. The Turks played a key role in providing Germans with field experience in the region and after six weeks of combat, the sixth of which saw intensive participation of the 99th Division, the British were forced again to retreat. As a result in the first day of battle both 73th and 75th divisions were nearly annihilated without making significant gains in the battlefield. The Turkish defensive position was shattered, the Ottoman army was retreating in some disarray, and General Allenby ordered his army to pursue the enemy.