Megiddo, 1918
At a glance:
- Series: Magill’s Guide to Military History
- Categories: Military History
- Subcategories: Wars, Battles, World War I
- Curriculum: 20th & 21st Century European History, British History, German History, Middle Eastern History
- Geographical Location: Middle East, Israel, Palestine
- Date: September 20, 1918
Article abstract: Type of action: Ground battle in World War I. Result: Allenby’s forces crushed the overwhelmed Turks and began the thirty-eight-day push to Aleppo, which resulted in the Armistice of Mudros.
In 1918, the Turkish front stretched from Jordan westward to Jaffa. The original battle plan had called for Lord Allenby’s Egyptian Expeditionary Force to cross the Jordan Valley, destroy the Turks’ only supply line in the area, the Hejaz Railway, and follow the Mediterranean coastline to Beirut. Thanks, in part, to T. E. Lawrence’s Arab forces’...
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