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  Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Subsequently, Allenby led the Inniskillings in the advance on Barberton and engaged the Boers at Lake Chrissie, during which the Cavalry Division was continually engaged by the Boers in Eastern Transvaal.
Allenby chose to steer a middle path, in which the importance of firepower was emphasised through the introduction of the machine gun and the training of cavalrymen in infantry tactics, whilst the alternative of relying on shock action where necessary was kept open.
Allenby was made a Field Marshal in 1919 and on August 6 of that year was created Viscount Allenby, of Megiddo and of Felixstowe in the County of Suffolk.
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 Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Field Marshal Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby (April 23 1861 - May 14 1936) was a British soldier and administrator most famous for his role during World War I, in which he led the in the conquest of Palestine and Syria in 1917 and 1918.
At the outbreak of the Boer War, Allenby was returned to his regiment, and the Inniskillings were embarked at Queenstown before landing at Cape Town, South Africa on 11 December 1899 during the ‘Black Week’ in which the British Army suffered reverses at Colenso, Magersfontein and.
Allenby was sent to Egypt to be made commander-in-chief of the (EEF) on June 27 1917, replacing Sir.
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 Encyclopedia: Edmund Allenby
Allenby became Inspector-General at a difficult time – the Boer War and The Russo-Japanese War (1904- 1905) was a conflict that grew out of the rival imperialist ambitions of Imperial Russia and Japan in Manchuria and Korea.
Allenby was sent to The Arab Republic of Egypt, commonly known as Egypt, (in Arabic: مصر, romanized Mişr or Maşr, in Egyptian dialect) is a republic mostly located in northeastern Africa.
Viscount Allenby, of Megiddo and of Felixstowe in the County of Suffolk, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
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Allenby was sent to Egypt to be made commander-in-chief of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force on June 27, 1917, replacing Sir Archibald Murray.
Having reorganised his regular forces Allenby won the Third Battle of Gaza (October 31-November 7, 1917) by surprising the defenders with an attack at Beersheba.
Allenby was made a Field Marshal in 1919 and on August 6 was created Viscount of Megiddo.
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 Lawrence of Arabia . General Allenby | PBS
Edmund Allenby was one of Britain's most successful commanders during World War I. Born in 1861, he enjoyed a privileged education before joining the Inniskilling Dragoons, and serving with distinction in Southern Africa (1884-1888) and in the Boer War (1889-1901).
Allenby said he would do what he could and in fact used Lawrence as his personal liaison officer with the Arabs situated to the east of his forces.
With Lawrence translating Allenby informed Prince Feisal that his newly-appointed Arab government would not be recognized and the city was to be handed over to the French.
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Edmund and Fremund A hagiography in Middle English verse of Edmund, King of East Anglia, and St. Fremund, as well as the miracles of St. Edmund, written in 1433 or 1434.
Edmund Rice Primary School: Blessed Edmund Rice School in Tramore, County Waterford, Ireland, presents a biography of Edmund Rice, and the story of his beatification.
The Edmund Fitzgerald: A pictorial tribute to the Edmund Fitzgerald and her crew A pictorial tribute to the Edmund Fitzgerald by Dale Lewis.
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 EDMUND ALLENBY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Nach der osmanischen Kapitulation wurde Allenby zum Feldmarschall ernannt und zum Viscount erhoben.
Von 1919 bis 1925 war Allenby der britische Hochkommissar in Ägypten als welcher er die nationalistischen Unruhen und Streiks für eine Unabhängigkeit des Landes zu bekämpfen hatte.
Allenby setzte gegenüber der britischen Regierung die Entlassung Ägyptens in die Unabhängigkeit durch, sicherte aber gleichzeitig den weiteren Einfluss Britanniens.
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General Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby was educated at Sandhurst, Britain's stellar military academy.
Allenby, however, is most famous for leading British forces in the Middle East.
Allenby of Armageddon; a Record of the Career and Campaigns of Field-Marshal Viscount Allenby.
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 thePeerage.com - Exhibit
Allenby, Edmund Henry Hynman, first Viscount Allenby of Megiddo 1861-1936, field-marshal, was born 23 April 1861 on the estate of his maternal grandfather, Brackenhurst, near Southwell, Nottinghamshire.
Allenby then decided to wheel a strong force into the hills and capture Jerusalem¾which for religious and political reasons it was important not to harm¾by envelopment between this force and another advancing northward from Beersheba up the road through Hebron.
Allenby possessed a superiority of four to one in cavalry, about six to four¾the exact figures on the Turkish side are still a matter of dispute¾in infantry, and nearly three to two in artillery.
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 First World War.com - Who's Who - Sir Edmund Allenby
Sir Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby (1861-1936) who was born in Brackenhurst on 23 April 1861, began his military career with the Inniskilling Dragoons in 1882 following an education at the Royal Military Academy (Sandhurst), serving in South Africa between 1884-88 and taking part in the Second Boer War from 1899-1901.
In 1917 he was given command of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force (chiefly because of a disagreement with Sir Douglas Haig over tactics used at the Battle of Arras).
Sir Edmund Allenby, who retired in 1925 becoming Rector of Edinburgh University, died in London on 14 May 1936.
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 Reader's Companion to Military History - - Allenby, Edmund   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
On the Western Front, Allenby became commander of the Third Army in 1915 and directed the ill-fated Gommecourt diversion at the Somme on July 1, 1916.
Allenby was lucky to be sent to Palestine, where he had room to maneuver with cavalry, twice as many troops as the enemy, air superiority, and good logistics.
Yet Allenby remains enigmatic—a failure in France, successful in the Middle East—capable of furious rages but a humanist who was well read, a student of nature, and a keen historian of the Crusades.
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 The Liberation of Jerusalem
Allenby's aim was to attack the Turks at Lifta, to the north-west of Jerusalem, to encircle the enemy, and at the same time to leave him a way out, so that the Turk would find himself forced to evacuate the city, without it being damaged by fighting.
Allenby decided to invade at Beersheeba, where he was least expected—but he knew that he had to distract the Turks by convincing them that he would invade at Gaza.
Allenby's adroit diversions caused the destruction of the Turkish army and the fall of Palestine, Arabia, Syria and Mesopotamia.
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Field Marshal Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby (April 23rd 1861 - May 14th 1936) was a British general known for his command in World War I.
Allenby was sent to Egypt to be made commander-in-chief of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) on June 27th 1917, replacing Sir Archibald Murray.
Allenby was made a Field Marshal in 1919 and on August 6th was created Viscount Allenby of Megiddo.
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 BBC - History - The Middle East during World War One   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Murray's failure to capture Gaza led to his replacement by General Sir Edmund Allenby, a soldier of great vigour and imagination, who was able to create a personal bond with his troops.
Many of Allenby's soldiers were deeply conscious that they were fighting on sacred soil, and some viewed themselves as modern-day crusaders, but their leader was acutely aware that many of his soldiers and workers were Islamic, and he vigorously played down any notion of a crusade.
Allenby, who retained his cavalry, received replacements for his infantry in Egypt from many sources, predominately from India but also from many other diverse nations ranging from Burma to the West Indies.
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Edmund Allenby's career was long and important and can be researched very extensively.
Allenby is also remembered in modern times from the film Lawrence of Arabia starring Peter O'Toole where the famous British actor Jack Hawkins took the role of Allenby, who played T.E.Lawrence along with the notion of creating an Arab State after the Liberation of Palestine from the Ottoman Empire.
In 1925 Edmund Allenby retired becoming Rector of Edinburgh University and died in London on the 14th May 1936.
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 Encyclopedia: Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
After the capture of Pretoria, and during Field Marshal Lord Roberts’; push eastwards, the Inniskillings were active around the town of Middelburg in which a thinly held line was maintained for more than three weeks against an active enemy.
The column period of the war lasted for eighteen months and took place across the Transvaal, the Orange Free State, Natal and the Cape Colony –; an area equal to Germany, France and Holland combined.
He returned to Britain in 1902 to command the 5th Royal Irish Lancers until 1905 and then the 4th Cavalry Brigade until 1910.
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 General Allenby
Allenby was a "coming man " clearly when he was at the War Office, and the war gave him an opportunity to leap straight into the front rank of the distinguished soldiers of his generation.
Allenby rode hard all one night with a French guide and with the best part of a cavalry division following as hard as they could.
I was in Russia then, and for long afterwards, but I was back when "the Bull" charged the enemy in the Battle of Arras, and charged so fiercely that in twelve hours 11,000 prisoners had passed through his corps' cages and he had captured 145 guns.
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 Edmund Allenby - Term Explanation on IndexSuche.Com
Having reorganised his regular forces Allenby won the Third_Battle_of_Gaza (October 31st - November 7th, 1917) by surprising the defenders with an attack at Beersheba.
Although he was a supreme master of cavalry horse warfare, before entering Jerusalem, Allenby dismounted and together with his officers, entered the city on foot through the Jaffa_Gate out of his great respect for the status of Jerusalem as the Holy City important to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (see his proclamation of marshal law below).
Allenby was made a Field_Marshal in 1919 and on August_6th was created Viscount_of_Megiddo.
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 First World War.com - Primary Documents - Sir Edmund Allenby on the Fall of Jerusalem, 9 December 1917
Reproduced below is General Sir Edmund Allenby's official proclamation of marshal law in Jerusalem following the city's fall into Allied hands on 9 December 1917.
In his proclamation Allenby noted that while the city was now governed by military law the inhabitants need not be unduly alarmed, since "every sacred building, monument, holy spot, shrine, traditional site, endowment, pious bequest, or customary place of prayer of whatsoever form...
In taking Jerusalem Allenby had exceeded British Prime Minister David Lloyd George's instructions to ensure the city's fall by Christmas.
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 Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby - Open Encyclopedia
Field Marshal Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby (April 23 1861 - May 14 1936) was a British soldier most famous for his role during World War I.
He returned to South Africa to fight in the Second Boer War from 1899.
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 PALESTINE
As Commander in Chief of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, ALLENBY took Beersheba and Gaza from the Turks in 1917 and entered Jerusalem through the gate that today bears his name, capturing the city on December 8, 1917.
Allenby won a sweeping victory at Megiddo (September 19-21, 1918) in the last great mounted cavalry campaign, defeating Liman in one of the war's most decisive battles.
To the north, Nazareth was seized by Allenby and Liman narrowly missed being captured.
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Allenby was a Victorian gentleman who made a name for himself hunting down Boer guerillas.
In private he was a gentle husband and father and a keen and well informed naturalist who loved poetry and intelligent conversation; in public he was the "bull", a short-tempered martinet who browbeat his subordinates and once, when asked to withdraw soldiers because the offensive was futile, barked, "What the hell does that matter.
Allenby hated war, but his career was forged from the mistakes of others.
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