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Hace 5 días · The Southern Palestine offensive, began on 31 October 1917, with the Battle of Beersheba, when the British Empire's Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) under the Command of Field Marshall Edmund Allenby attacked Ottoman Empire forces at the Palestinian town of Beersheba during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign, of World War I.
Hace 4 días · At about the same time, British general Edmund Allenby replaced General Archibald Murray as commander of the EEF. Allenby reorganized the EEF to give him direct command of three corps, in the process deactivating Chetwode's Eastern Force and placing him in command of one of the two infantry corps.
Hace 1 día · The Allies, the Entente or the Triple Entente was an international military coalition of countries led by France, the United Kingdom, Russia, the United States, Italy, and Japan against the Central Powers of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria in World War I (1914–1918).
Hace 5 días · The deputy military secretary of Gen. Edmund Allenby, who led the campaign against the Turks in Palestine, wrote later: “It was very largely the daring work of young spies, most of them natives of Palestine, which enabled the brilliant Field Marshal to accomplish this undertaking so effectively.”
Hace 5 días · The Turks indeed took control of Jerusalem 300 years after his death, in 1517, and his prophecy came to pass, as the Ottoman Turks then lost Jerusalem in 1917. Exactly 400 years later! During WWI, British General Edmund Allenby walked into Jerusalem, on Hanukkah 1917, without firing a shot.
Hace 3 días · In the 20th century the house has been occupied by senior army officers, in 1906 and 1908 by Brig.-Gen. E. H. H. Allenby who became commander of the British forces in Palestine in the First World War and was created Viscount Allenby in 1919.
Hace 4 días · OVER FIELDS OF FIRE: Flying the Sturmovik in Action on the Eastern Front 1942-45
