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	Second Battle of Gaza - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The experienced combat commanders, General Philip Chetwode, commander of the British Desert Column, and General Henry Chauvel, commander of the Anzac Mounted Division, were less optimistic about the chances of breaking the Turkish line.
		British heavy guns south of Gaza were joined by naval gunfire from the French cruiser Requin and two British monitors (M21 and M31).
		Another deficiency in the British plan was that all their artillery was concentrated on bombarding the defences, leaving no guns available for counter-battery work against the Turkish artillery which was therefore uninhibited in its shelling of the British line.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Second_Battle_of_Gaza (1979 words)

	British XX Corps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The British XX Corps was a World War I army corps that was formed in Palestine in 1917.
		Following the British failure in the Second Battle of Gaza, the Eastern Expeditionary Force underwent a major rearrangement with the appointment of General Edmund Allenby as the new Commander-in-Chief.
		The XX Corps was commanded by General Philip Chetwode, formerly the commander of the Desert Column.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_XX_Corps (216 words)

	World War 2 - Timelines - War in the Desert - 1942
		British forces land at Diego Suarez and Antsirene on Vichy French held Madagascar in an pre-emptive strike to stop the Japanese from using it as an advanced base.
		British losses for this operation were 150 tanks, 133 guns and 6,000 troops.
		British disarray increases as German advance units mix with British rear units which are reatreating as fast as possible for the relative safety of the El Alamein defensive position.
	www.worldwar-2.net /timelines/war-in-the-desert/war-in-the-desert-index-1942.htm (2706 words)

	USATODAY.com - British forces move large column into Basra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		British officials said they had managed to set up base at a former college inside Basra's city limits, but did not yet control the city of 1.3 million.
		British and Iraqi forces have been locked in a battle for control of the southern Iraq city since the war began.
		Leading the British advance was the 7th Armored Brigade, the "Desert Rats," which killed an unknown number of paramilitary fighters and took others prisoner as the unit pushed in from the west.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/iraq/2003-04-06-war-basra_x.htm (799 words)

	Savage and Soldier Online
		The British command was much too influenced by Gordon's claim that the appearance of even twenty red coats in Khartoum would be enough to demoralize the Mahdist army and end the siege.
		Thus when the Desert Column finally did reach the Nile and met two of Gordon's steamers, red coats were scrounged from the Guards to be worn by the small detachment of the Sussex Regiment sent up the Nile to relieve Khartoum.
		The Nile Column was disbanded but a small detachment of Egyptian and British soldiers were kept in small outposts along the Nile and the railway line on the frontier.
	www.savageandsoldier.com /sudan/RedCoat.html (1274 words)

	Green Nile game run by Jackson Gamers
		This action: "The River and the Desert", was an overwhelming victory for the Mahdists, who resisted a combined assault by a British/Egyptian force marching overland to rendevous with steam boats ascending the Nile river.
		The British forces on the river were contained in a steam launch and two larger steam boats, the "Dundee" and the "Jessie S".
		The desert column, on the other hand, had to deal with thousands of beserk dervishers who overwhelmed my Egyptian infantry unit and captured their companion artillery piece.
	www.angelfire.com /games3/jacksongamer/game_nile.htm (1493 words)

	Part 10: The Mediterranean Was a Desert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		It had been considered a fossil or an inorganic structure of chemical precipitation until the 1930s when a British sedimentologist, Maurice Black, waded across the tidal flat of the Bahamas and found a dense growth of blue-green algae forming a thin mat on the flat shores.
		After a severe storm the mat would be buried under a thin cover of sediments, but the algal growth would persist and a new mat would be constructed.
		The Mediterranean had been dry during the late Miocene, and we could envision a painted desert at the bottom of the present continental slope, stretching across the side expanse of what is now the Balearic abyssal plain.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Academy/6040/flood10.htm (3360 words)

	Keyword (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The British view is that the sight of local youths dismantling the offices and barracks of a regime they used to fear shows they have confidence that Saddam Hussain’s henchmen will not be returning to these towns in southern Iraq.
		Desert Rats and tanks mass near Basra yesterday Pictures: TERRY RICHARDS and BRIAN ROBERTS From NICK PARKER with the British Army Field HQ, southern Iraq SADDAM’S henchmen fled in terror as the Desert Rats closed in on Basra with tanks yesterday.
		British troops were poised to enter Basra today after an uprising by the local population against Iraqi army units led to a bloodbath.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=desertrats (2620 words)

	War on Saddam
		April 6,2003: British Desert Rat forces staged their largest military incursion yet into Basra, rumbling into Iraqs second-largest city Sunday with a column of 40 armored personnel carriers.
		March 30,2003: British Royal Marines said Sunday that they had captured an Iraqi general, who was a paramilitary leader, and four other high-ranking paramilitary officials in a raid southeast of the southern city of Basra.
		March24, 2003: US and British forces are concentrating their attack to take over Basrah, which is the 2nd largest city in Iraq.
	www.desert-voice.net /war_on_saddam.htm (7004 words)

	DRAMASCRIPTS
		The column has set up camp until their dead comrades are buried.
		The British camp is shrouded in gunsmoke, flashes of orange light bursting through, the Gatling gun wreaking havoc.
		The peeling CORPSE of a British soldier is dragged through the streets by a rope tied to a camel's back.
	some-scripts.net /4f2.html (4940 words)

	SARIR FIELD SIRTE BASIN, LIBYA, Desert Surprise Then -- and Now Some Keys to Revisit of Libya; Compiled from articles ...
		The first well proved an oil column of over 250 ft (76 m), much greater than the predicted closure for the shallow reflection structure on which it was located.
		The stratigraphic column of the Sarir field area is generally representative of the succession throughout the Sirte basin, although there are some important local variations.
		The maximum height of the oil column is 300 ft (91 m) compared to the vertical closure of 400 ft (122 m).
	www.searchanddiscovery.com /documents/sarir/sarir.htm (6298 words)

	War games see sales spike. - Mar. 25, 2003
		While "Conflict Desert Storm" is seeing a slight surge, that's nothing compared to the interest in "Desert Combat," a free "mod" for Electronic Arts' (ERTS: Research, Estimates) hit "Battlefield 1942".
		A new version of "Desert Combat" will be released next week and will include new weapons for both sides (including scud missiles and A-10 attack planes) and a mission to find and destroy (or, if you're the Iraqis, defend) a chemical weapons plant.
		"Desert Combat", which was overwhelmingly voted last year's most popular mod, is a free download for now, though that might change with future versions.
	money.cnn.com /2003/03/25/commentary/game_over/column_gaming (645 words)

	Diana Bell's ALH Research Notes
		Opposite the spacious Hotel Victor (in Damascus) the column turned and crossed the bridge over the Barada and forcing a passage through the crowded streets, made for the imposing looking Hall of Government, the steps of which were lined with officials and notables.....
		Feisal and his motley crew...installed themselves in the Public Offices and palatial residences of Damascus and proceeded to administer the affairs of State, assisted by a handful of impractical British enthusiasts, wearing kefeers, and called liaison offices." It is not the aim of this article to dwell on T E Lawrence.
		Lawrence was the British officer assigned to the Sherifian forces to attempt to influence King Faisal to mould the disparate bedouin tribes into a fighting force to revolt against and harry the Turkish army on the west and enter Damascus triumphant and establish an Arab kingdom in the west.
	www.geocities.com /ct12000/diana_bell.html (1520 words)

	Space 1889 Timeline
		Just representing the feats of Britain itself would have excluded many of the technological achievements pioneered by the British in its many colonies and protectorates, so it was decided to make the exhibit truly international with invitations being extended to almost all of the colonized world.
		The British also felt that it was important to show their achievements right alongside those of "less civilized" countries.
		British besiege and capture the city of Shastapsh.
	mateengreenway.com /steampunk/Space1889timeline.htm (4943 words)

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		Desert Warfare: Being the Chronicle of the Eastern Soudan Campaign.
		Wilson, Charles W. From Korti to Kartum: A Journal of the Desert March from Korti to Gubat and the Ascent of the Nile in General Gordon's Steamers.
		Desert Warfare p.10 "The Desert: Its Effect on Operations." Inf 71 (SepOct 1981): pp.
	carlisle-www.army.mil /usamhi/Bibliographies/ReferenceBibliographies/desert/genmisc.doc (2313 words)

	SteynOnBritain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		And, reading of her, I was reminded for the umpteenth time of why the British, of all people, should never have fallen for the neo-apartheid of multiculturalism.
		‘British’ was the prototype multiethnic nationality: if you were a doctor from Kingston-on-Thames or a nurse from Kingston, Jamaica, or an assistant choreographer from Kingston, Ontario, you were British — and, unlike the Germans, race didn’t come into it.
		Britishness was far more of a genuinely multicultural identity than the yawning we-are-the-world nullity of modern multiculturalism.
	www.steynonline.com /index2.cfm?edit_id=22 (4281 words)

	1942
		The British Eighth Army is pushed towards the Egyptian border.
		Renewed German attacks against the British defences at El Alamein bog down in the face of stubborn British resistance.
		The 15th Panzer Division fails to break through the British 8th Army's lines in the battle of Alam Halfa and advance toward Alexandria, 120km away.
	www.wargamer.com /ww2timeline/1942africa.asp (1428 words)

	'Mad Mahdi' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Waiting between the column and the water was a large army of dervishes.
		But the British public would never have that satisfaction, and the hard-to-swallow truth was that the Mahdi had been victorious.
		Colonel Wilson's Desert Column was still at Gumbat, near Metemmeh, when it was met by Gordon's small flotilla on January 22.
	www.thehistorynet.com /mh/blmadmahdi/index2.html (999 words)

	Desert Mounted Corps
		After the second Battle of Gaza, 17/19 April 1917, he was given command of the Desert Column thereby becoming the first Australian ever to lead a Corps.
		In June Chauvel was given command of the new Desert Mounted Corps (3 Divisions).
		General Chauvel riding at the head of the Desert Mounted Corps during the official entry of the Allied forces into the town.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-conflicts-periods/ww1/lt-horse/desert_mounted_corps.htm (159 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Michael Meacher: This war on terrorism is bogus
		And when a British foreign minister met Gadaffi in his desert tent in August 2002, it was said that "the UK does not want to lose out to other European nations already jostling for advantage when it comes to potentially lucrative oil contracts" with Libya (BBC Online, August 10 2002).
		The conclusion of all this analysis must surely be that the "global war on terrorism" has the hallmarks of a political myth propagated to pave the way for a wholly different agenda - the US goal of world hegemony, built around securing by force command over the oil supplies required to drive the whole project.
		If there was ever need to justify a more objective British stance, driven by our own independent goals, this whole depressing saga surely provides all the evidence needed for a radical change of course.
	www.guardian.co.uk /september11/story/0,11209,1036685,00.html (2376 words)

	Was Poppy Right After All?
		The 500,000-man army of Desert Storm was ordered home.
		And they do not lose as long as they keep fighting, dying, killing, and raising the cost of the occupation.
		British, French, Israelis, and Russians can testify to that.
	www.amconmag.com /07_28_03/buchanan.html (753 words)

	CNN.com - Marines roll into Iraq - Mar. 20, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		British troops moved into the Al Faw Peninsula of southern Iraq but had not yet captured the border town of Umm Qasr, a British military spokesman said.
		A British official told CNN Iraq launched as many as 10 missiles into Kuwait, but all missed their targets -- some after being intercepted by Patriot missiles.
		A reporter accompanying British forces said his unit was on the move with U.S. troops entering southern Iraq in response to Iraqi artillery fire.
	www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/meast/03/20/sprj.irq.attack (721 words)

	TAP: Vol 13, Iss. 17. Book Review:. Gershom Gorenberg. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The "Rapture of the Church" is a phrase popularized by John Darby, a 19th-century British preacher.
		It's a key element of a theology known by the unwieldy name of dispensational premillennialism, which builds a complex scaffolding of interpretation around the Bible yet claims to be nothing but the simple intent of Scripture.
		In The Remnant, a million converted Jews who gather in a desert refuge live on manna and water from a supernatural spring, proving that the supernatural events of the Bible also took place literally.
	www.prospect.org /print/V13/17/gorenberg-g.html (3540 words)

	CNN.com - More U.S. troops, armor head to Iraq - Mar. 28, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Eleven of the 12 are with the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade from Camp LeJeune, North Carolina, and teams are combing the desert for them.
		British soldiers work to secure a stronghold Thursday in Az Zubayr near Basra in southern Iraq.
		• A British ship carrying humanitarian aid that was to arrive Thursday at the southern Iraqi port of Umm Qasr has been delayed a day because of concerns mines may still be in the waterway.
	www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/meast/03/27/sprj.irq.war.main (1286 words)

	Don't blame the kids for poor grammar
		Valley communities had begun to awaken to their phenomenal economic potential and we were starting to think of ourselves as a region.
		Seven of our nine desert cities were in existence in 1973 (the remaining two would incorporate during the next decade) and their elected leadership collectively decided they needed a forum, an inter-municipal venue in which they could gather regularly to discuss matters of mutual interest and concern.
		Fragile desert egos would crack like eggshells at the first tap of his gentle mockery.
	www.desert-resorts.com /psl/hank/blame.html (2191 words)

	Desert Rats By Scott MacMillan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		German and Austrian dailies led with the release of 17 adventure tourists who had been held hostage—either by bandits or Islamic fundamentalists, depending on whom you ask—in the sands of southern Algeria.
		Six groups totaling 32 people—mostly Germans, Austrians, and Swiss adventure tourists traversing the desert in vans, SUVs, and motorcycles, and ranging in age from teenagers to sixtysomethings—have disappeared in the last three months.
		The suspected culprits, the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat, are led by 31-year-old Mokhtar Belmokhtar, known as "The One-Eyed" and described as "a cross between Robin Hood and Osama Bin Laden," according to the BBC.
	slate.msn.com /id/2082995 (816 words)

	DRAMASCRIPTS
		His gaze is riveted by the sights around him: the MERCHANTS beckoning him into their shops; the BRITISH SOLDIERS on leave, sheltering in the cool hollows of the cafes and whorehouses; the BEGGARS, hunched up against the stone walls, their faces covered with flies.
		The earth is still desert brown, but there are patches of green now -- and somewhere in the distance, the sky is flening with rain.
		All the soldiers he thought were British sentries are in fact Dervish warriors, wearing the bloody uniforms of their victims.
	some-scripts.net /4f1.html (7687 words)

	John & Belle Have A Blog: Disraeli on Conservatism
		Thus, the British conservatives put an end to the free trade ideology that ruled British policy in 1905.
		Thus, the Republicans since Eisenhower's time have consistently rolled up huge deficits, thus sparing their constituencies the burden of paying for their military expansions and tax cuts and cleverly getting the other side -- the supposed liberals -- to pick up deficit reduction talk to show they are responsible.
		Conservatives think that justice is essentially connected with desert, and its aim is, not equality, but the upholding of the rule of law that assures that people get what they deserve.
	examinedlife.typepad.com /johnbelle/2005/02/interesting_dav.html (11735 words)

	Aftermath of Iraq war puts Bush's pre-emption doctrine in jeopardy
		President Clinton, British, French and German intelligence agencies and even Hans Blix (who tells the British newspaper The Guardian, "We know for sure that they did exist") have expressed certainty about Iraq having WMDs at some point.
		A vast multinational conspiracy of bad faith, using fictitious WMDs as a pretext for war, is a wildly implausible explanation of the failure to find WMDs.
		He could manufacture civilian casualties -- perhaps by blowing up some of his own hospitals -- to inflame world opinion and count on his European friends to force a halt in the war, based on his promise to open Iraq to inspections, having destroyed his WMDs on the eve of war.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /opinion/127587_will22.html (837 words)

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