Battle of Mughar Ridge
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| Battle of El Mughar Ridge | |||||||
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| Part of First World War | |||||||
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Ottoman Empire | ||||||
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| Kress von Kressenstein | |||||||
| Sinai and Palestine Campaign |
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| Suez – Romani – Magdhaba – Rafa – 1st Gaza – 2nd Gaza – 3rd Gaza – Beersheba – Mughar Ridge – Jerusalem – Megiddo |
The Battle of El Mughar Ridge on 13 November 1917 took place at Junction Station, where the Haifa-Jerusalem line branches to Beersheba. The battle succeeded in causing the Ottoman Seventh and Eighth Armies to withdraw towards Jerusalem and Haifa respectively.
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[edit] Prelude
[edit] The Battle
[edit] Aftermath
[edit] Bibliography
- Grainger, John D, The Battle for Palestine, 1917 (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2006)
[edit] References
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