Sinai and Palestine Campaign

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Archibald Murray Philip W. Chetwode Charles M. Dobell Edmund Allenby ( 1917 ) Henry George Chauvel Thomas Edward Lawrence Faisal I. Abdallah I.

Jadir Bey Talât Bey Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein Erich von Falkenhayn (from 1917) Otto Liman von Sanders ( 1918 )

The Palestine front and Sinai front was a sideshow in the First World War. It was opened in January 1915 by the advance of the Ottoman Empire to the Suez Canal, which was however countered by the British Empire. A second attempt by the Ottoman army with German support failed by the Asia Corps in June 1916. Immediately thereafter, the British began with the gradual reconquest of the Sinai Peninsula and could take 1917 Rafah in December 1916 Al -Arish and in February. Two British raids on Gaza in March and April 1917 ended in grave struggles and a British defeat. Only in October took the reorganized British Beersheba and shortly after a third attempt Gaza. In December, the battle for Jerusalem, and in February 1918 Jericho followed. The British start in Amman failed, which led to months of war grave in the Jordan Valley again. With the landing of the British from the Mediterranean could be brought about with a British victory on September 18 and 19 the decisive battle at Megiddo. The Battle of Megiddo, and shortly thereafter was taking Damascus also represented the culmination of the Anglo- Ottoman Mesopotamia Front and the Arab Revolt Represents the Ottoman Empire had on October 30, 1918 the armistice of Mudros agree that not only an Allied occupation of the previous Arab provinces, but also of the Straits and large parts of Anatolia envisaged.