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	Battle of Beersheba - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Romani – Magdhaba – Rafa – 1st Gaza – 2nd Gaza – 3rd Gaza – Beersheba – Jerusalem – Megiddo
		The battle of Beersheba was the critical element of a wider British offensive, known as the Third Battle of Gaza, aimed at breaking the Turkish defensive line that stretched from Gaza on the Mediterranean shore to Beersheba, an outpost 30 miles inland.
		Since the second failure in the Second Battle of Gaza, the British forces in Palestine had under gone a major upheaval with the replacement of General Archibald Murray with the distinguished cavalry commander, General Edmund Allenby, formerly the commander of the British Third Army on the Western Front.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Beersheba (1355 words)

	Battle of Beersheba -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The infantry, supported by heavy (Large but transportable armament) artillery, would attack from the south-west against the strongest Beersheba defences while the mounted (Army unit smaller than a division) brigades would circle to the south and east.
		The attack on Beersheba by Chetwode's XX Corps commenced at 5.55am on October 31 when the artillery, more than 100 field guns and (A muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range) howitzers, commenced bombarding the Turkish trenches.
		Twenty of the heavy guns were engaged in counter-battery work against the enemy artillery, which was operated by (A mountainous republic in central Europe; under the Habsburgs (1278-1918) Austria maintained control of the Holy Roman Empire and was a leader in European politics until the 19th century) Austrian gunners.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/ba/battle_of_beersheba.htm (1134 words)

	The Battle for Beersheba 31st October 1917
		The Battle of Beersheba was to be a three-phase operation supported by the British.
		Beersheba with its mosque was clearly in view; it offered no prize in rations or quarters, but something more coveted were the ancient wells to water those parched men and their Waler mounts.
		A Squadron 3rd/9th South Australian Mounted Rifles began as the Reedbeds Cavalry in 1841 and is privileged to have inherited the honors, the history and the tradition of the Australian Light Horse.
	www.lighthorse.org.au /histbatt/beersheba.htm (1469 words)

	Light Horsemen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The battle at Beersheba may be Australia's greatest victorious battle honor.
		The charge at Beersheba so shocked the Turks there that after firing at the charging horsemen, they forgot to adjust their sights for close range.
		Major Eric Hyman led 'A' Squadron to attack a redoubt guarding the eastern outskirts of the town while the remainder of the troops jumped the trenches.
	www.vernonjohns.org /snuffy1186/lthorse.html (418 words)

	BATTLE OF GALLIPOLI FACTS AND INFORMATION
		In the Third_Battle_of_Krithia on June_4 all thought of a decisive breakthrough was gone and the plans for battle had reverted to trench warfare with objectives being measured in hundreds of metres.
		At Anzac, an attack on the Turkish trenches at Lone Pine by the infantry brigades of the Australian 1st Division was a rare victory for the Anzacs.
		Amongst the dead of the battle was the brilliant young chemist Henry_Moseley.
	www.witwib.com /Battle_of_Gallipoli (4063 words)

	First World War.com - Battles - The Third Battle of Gaza, 1917
		With Edmund Allenby's appointment to command of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in the wake of two failed attacks at Gaza in March and April 1917 - replacing Sir Archibald Murray who was recalled to London - he was tasked by British Prime Minister David Lloyd George with the capture of Jerusalem by Christmas 1917.
		Thus the Third Battle of Gaza - also referred to as the Battle of Beersheba - was initiated early on the morning of 31 October 1917.
		Instead he resolved to take the Turkish forces by surprise in the relatively lightly defended area of Beersheba (a plan initially proposed by General Chetwode), deploying 40,000 troops in the area.
	www.firstworldwar.com /battles/gaza3.htm (694 words)

	Battle of Gallipoli (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The troops of the 29th Division were still exhausted and unnerved by the battle for the beaches and for Seddülbahir village, captured after heavy fighting on the 26th.
		In the Third Battle of Krithia on June 4 all thought of a decisive breakthrough was gone and the plans for battle had reverted to trench warfare with objectives being measured in hundreds of metres.
		Defeat at the Battle of Romani marked the end of that ambition and for the remainder of the war the British were on the offensive in the Middle East.
	www.worldwar1-history.com /Battle-of-Gallipoli.aspx (4063 words)

	Beersheba; The only great Mounted Infantry charge in history.
		A tangled mass of wounded and dying horses and soldiers is shown against the backdrop of a barren and undulating landscape.
		The Battle of Beersheba has always been presented as a story of almost reckless heroism.
		When the trenches before Beersheba were reached, the Brigade mostly bypassed the first and main trenches, but casualties occurred.
	diggerhistory.info /pages-conflicts-periods/ww1/lt-horse/beersheba.htm (1383 words)

	Occupations of Palestine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It was inhabited by a number of ancient tribes, such as the Jebusites, Amorites, and the Hivites each battling the other.
		According to the Bible, the land was promised to the Children of Israel, the descendants of the Biblical Patriarch, Abraham.
		When they returned there following their Exodus from ancient Egypt, they battled with the native inhabitants; their primary opponents were the ancient Philistines who were based in ancient Gaza.
	www.sevenhills.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Occupations_of_Palestine (3465 words)

	Battle of Beersheba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Battle of Beersheba took place on October 31, 1917, as part of the Palestine campaign during World War I.
		More significantly, with the formation of the British Yeomanry Mounted Division, he now had three mounted divisionss which were combined to form the Desert Mounted Corps, commanded by General Henry Chauvel—the first Australian general to command an army corps.
		Chetwode believed that the lack of water would be easier to overcome than the Gaza fortifications and so a mammoth engineering and suppy effort was undertaken to make a forward base in the vicinity of Beersheba from which infantry and mounted troops could stage an assault.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/battle_of_beersheba (1370 words)

	anzac (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Australian and New Zealand Divisions were involved in a number of the Battles of the Somme, July to November, 1916, while components of British corps but it was only during the Battle of Pozieres, 23rd July 1916, that an Anzac formation participated.
		2nd ANZAC (Australian 3rd and 4th Divisions, New Zealand Division plus the British 25th Division) fought in the Battle of Messines, July 1917, which was a prelude to an Allied offensive from the Ypres salient.
		At Villers-Bretonneux, in the 1918 First Battles of the Somme, the ANZAC designation ceased to be used to represent an army corps containing Australian and New Zealand Divisions.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Anzac.html (569 words)

	7th Light Horse Regiment AIF
		At the first Battle of Gaza, it was this Regiment that led the Anzac Mounted Division through the night to its position in rear of the city and which captured the new Commander of the Gaza Defence, who was on his way up to take his command.
		During the Battle of Beersheba and the pursuit which followed, the Regiment sustained the fine traditions it had already established for dash and gallantry.
		In the raids across Jordan and throughout the long summer of 1918 in the Jordan Valley, it bore its share of the fighting and the hardships, from the bitter cold of Gilead in mid-winter to the scorching heat of Jericho in July.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-conflicts-periods/ww1/lt-horse/7alhr.htm (514 words)

	List of battles (alphabetical) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Battle of Covadonga - 722 - Moslem Conquest of Spain
		Battle of Mohacs - 1526 - Turkish Conquest of Hungary
		Battle of Pavia (773) - Conquests of Charlemagne
	www.peacelink.de /keyword/List_of_battles_(alphabetical).php (4952 words)

	The Great War - War Against Turkey - James Mowbray
		Battle of Ramadi led to Maude driving north into central Mesopotamia, towards the oil fields at Mosul, but he succumbed to cholera and was replaced in November by Marshall
		Battle of Junction Station, and the arrival of Turkish reinforcements now commanded by General von Falkenhayn (late of Western Front fame, and the father of the Verdun battles of the previous year), who reestablished a continuous line from Jerusalem to the sea and checked Allenby's advance momentarily
		Battle of Meggido opened with a drive along the Mediterranean coast, which tore open the Turkish right, and let Allenby launch his cavalry through the hole into the desert beyond (the model for Second Alamein in 1942)
	www.au.af.mil /au/awc/awcgate/mowbray/gw-turk.htm (945 words)

	The Light Horse Brigade (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The battle for Beersheba was to be a three-phase operation, supported by British troops.
		This would be a very significant factor in the battle for Beersheba, forcing Chauvel to commit his reserve -- the Australian Mounted Division.
		They were not initially the main focus of the coming battle, but sat at they rear until their time came.
	www.keepersofhisgates.com /lighthorse.htm (1338 words)

	Battle Pride
		I am a direct descendant of Mathew Battle, if anything looks familiar or you are looking for information, please contact me. I have quite a bit of information and would love to share it with you.
		The family held a fiefdom and Walter was supposedly a knight under William the Conqurer(William I).
		Harold II was killed in battle and William was the victor.
	www.angelfire.com /tn/BattlePride (529 words)

	1918 - View Memories
		Towards the end of October 1917 dwindling supplies of water demanded that the water wells at Beersheeba be taken at once.Without water, the whole Sinai-Palestine campaign would be halted perhaps for months, and the Gaza-Beersheeba line would remain unbroken.
		Battle of Beersheba was Tom's first major campaign other's that followed were the successful third Battle of Gaza.
		On the 8/8/1918 he led his section into battle, capturing 2 German Gun Posts, he then captured the third Gun Post on his own killing some of the enemy and capturing 23 Germans.
	www.awm.gov.au /1918/feedback/memories_view.asp?offset=50 (1583 words)

	sciforums.com - The Australian Light Horse
		The attack on Beersheba was Australias' "charge of the light brigade".
		Incidentally this charge, resulting in the capture of Beersheba, made it possible for the creation of modern day Israel and Saudi Arabia because of the subsequent capture of Damascus and driving the Turks out after 600 years occupation.
		But to say that doing battle with maori battalions Was worse than against other newzealand battalions or australian battalions,is poopy cock.
	www.sciforums.com /showthread.php?t=9595 (3427 words)

	Embassy of Australia, Washington, DC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Battle of the Coral Sea was the turning point in the battle against the Japanese.
		The battle was brilliantly successful and became a model for subsequent attacks.
		The more important part of his answer was that Australia saw Saddam Hussein’s regime, his program of weapons of mass destruction and his violation of the ceasefire endorsed by the United Nations as posing a threat to his neighbours and to the rest of the world.
	www.austemb.org /speechChicago03.htm (2893 words)

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	Brigadier General John Meredith
		For his role in this battle, Meredith was mentioned in dispatches on 13 October 1916 and awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) on 20 January 1917.
		He led his brigade at the Second Battle of Gaza in April 1917 but on the eve of the Battle of Beersheba in October 1917, he was forced to return to Australia for family reasons.
		He boarded the transport Wiltshire on 12 November 1917 and arrived back in Australia on 20 December 1917, where his appointment to the AIF was terminated on 3 January 1918.
	www.unsw.adfa.edu.au /~rmallett/Generals/meredith.html (663 words)

	Reader's Companion to Military History - - Beersheba, Battle of (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Remembered as an outstanding example of tactical deception, the Battle of Beersheba paved the way for the British conquest of Palestine in World War I.
		Allenby planned a surprise eastward movement to capture the desert town of Beersheba and thereby outflank the Ottoman-German-Austrian defenses at Gaza on the coast.
		Concealing his battle plan through diversionary naval shelling, surreptitious transfer of forces eastward, and the intentional "loss" of documents detailing an imminent attack on Gaza, Allenby's cavalry forces achieved a quick if hard-fought victory at Beersheba and proceeded northwestward to the coast.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/mil/html/ml_005900_beershebabat.htm (180 words)

	Israel's Aussie Connection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		"Beersheba had to be captured with its water wells intact before nightfall," Crombie explained before parking in front of the visitor center that allegedly houses the city's original wells "Otherwise, they would have lost the element of surprise and the water resources they desperately needed."
		Today, Beersheba is a rapidly growing city with a population of 200,000.
		This is the final resting place of some 1,250 soldiers, many of them Australian, who died in the Battle of Beersheba and the outlying area.
	www.join.org.au /media/Australia-Israel-connections-20030501.htm (1420 words)

	Brigadier General Lachlan Wilson
		From 28 May 1917 to 5 June 1917, Wilson was acting commander pf the 2nd Light Horse Brigade while Brigadier General W. de L. Ryrie was acting commander of the Australian Mounted Division.
		Then, on 30 October 1917, on the eve of the battle of Beersheba, Wilson took over as commander of the 3rd Light Horse Brigade with the rank of temporary brigadier general after its South African commander, Brigadier General J. Royston, inhaled poison gas in order to determine its effect.
		Wilson was disappointed at the results of the pursuit after Beersheba.
	www.unsw.adfa.edu.au /~rmallett/Generals/wilson.html (1186 words)

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