Friday 31 March 2017
The dna you are looking for...
You are looking for a dna but God is looking for a Spirit and those who worship in spirit and in truth. Saul is looking for DNA. Mephibosheth is looking for dna. Herod was looking for a worshiper along with the devil that He might be tested and tempted but the solution is the same. It is written. Saul worshiped himself, Mephibosheth worshiped himself. Johnathan worshiped in Spirit. Judas did not. Paul the apostle did not but was converted and then worshiped. The issue with the individuals mentioned above is that they had access to the same truth and were all related from the tribe of Benjamin. They had the same dna. Dna is not what you are looking for or it should not be. You should be looking for those who worshiped in spirit and in truth.
As God has no skin tone or color as He is a spirit, Judaism as true religion has no color.
As God has no skin tone or color as He is a spirit, Judaism as true religion has no skin tone or color.
The drum...
The drum is indigenous to Israel, Jerusalem, Egypt and the land of Babylon; the middle East where the ancient codes of civilization were developed. Do you know Shelley Mango?
The last war in this world is against the troglodyte. He is a bum. He tends to eat a lot and loves drilling holes to get back home; loves oil with the neanderthal dna. He is white and big bellied and is from the Bahamas but lives on the Eastern seaboard where he enjoys the Brit Milah.
The last war in this world is against the troglodyte. He is a bum. He tends to eat a lot and loves drilling holes to get back home; loves oil with the neanderthal dna. He is white and big bellied and is from the Bahamas but lives on the Eastern seaboard where he enjoys the Brit Milah.
Thursday 30 March 2017
Limonadee(TM) is a new trademark at Londinium. Call today! It is available for $5.00.
Limonadee(TM) is a new trademark at Londinium. Call today! it is ideal as a wine label. It confirms that only white slaves reside in England under a constitution that is unwritten and they do not receive any participatory remuneration which is just Heaven in the countries that make all the goods shipped back for consumption and it is Heaven in Denmark but they have association to the unwritten constitution which is pay enough for human road kill...royal! So, now we know who is the devil in desperation for attention and acceptance and the actual location for hell on earth and its devolved houses of hell; parle a menthe merci! The trademark is available for $20.00 plus an administrative fee $1000.00.
Starboy or Badboy...
The culture everyone seeks to enjoy for commerce, shopping and enjoyment is the Brit Milah where promises are kept, kept more often and kept quickly. This has made the U.S. successful in its application and celebration of the common law. But, for personal expression and private culture the Brit Milah also helps in that safeguards human privacy and a dignity with tolerance that enables personal cultural expression and expression in commercial enterprise; noooooooooooooobody!
This could be described as the two Hindu orders of Rita and dharma where the natural law is safe-guarded by the sovereign God in the first concept of Rita. This is equivalent to the natural law or the Brit Milah in most of the Western world that gives everyone a comfort in public spaces and malls with the ISO or the international standards. In the private sphere, you could have a more aggressive Adventist culture where you break your mother's table to see if she is aggressive or savy or your mother and brother break your vehicle windshield to see if you are aggressive or savy enough although you would also have to call the police in your aggressive wisdom. In the private sphere, you could also have a sharia culture where you divorce the devil and the strange woman in your household as described in Proverbs 2,5,6,7,9, and 12 by saying "Talaq" three times.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/rita-Hinduism
Rita, Sanskrit ṛta (“truth” or “order”), in Indian religion and philosophy, the cosmic order mentioned in the Vedas, the ancient sacred scriptures of India. As Hinduism developed from the ancient Vedic religion, the concept of rita led to the doctrines of dharma (duty) and karma (accumulated effects of good and bad actions). Rita is the physical order of the universe, the order of the sacrifice, and the moral law of the world. Because of rita, the sun and moon pursue their daily journeys across the sky, and the seasons proceed in regular movement. Vedic religion features the belief that rita was guarded by Varuna, the god-sovereign, who was assisted by Mitra, the god of honour, and that the proper performance of sacrifices to the gods was necessary to guarantee its continuance. Violation (anrita) of the established order by incorrect or improper behaviour, even if unintentional, constituted sin and required careful expiation.
This could be described as the two Hindu orders of Rita and dharma where the natural law is safe-guarded by the sovereign God in the first concept of Rita. This is equivalent to the natural law or the Brit Milah in most of the Western world that gives everyone a comfort in public spaces and malls with the ISO or the international standards. In the private sphere, you could have a more aggressive Adventist culture where you break your mother's table to see if she is aggressive or savy or your mother and brother break your vehicle windshield to see if you are aggressive or savy enough although you would also have to call the police in your aggressive wisdom. In the private sphere, you could also have a sharia culture where you divorce the devil and the strange woman in your household as described in Proverbs 2,5,6,7,9, and 12 by saying "Talaq" three times.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/rita-Hinduism
Rita, Sanskrit ṛta (“truth” or “order”), in Indian religion and philosophy, the cosmic order mentioned in the Vedas, the ancient sacred scriptures of India. As Hinduism developed from the ancient Vedic religion, the concept of rita led to the doctrines of dharma (duty) and karma (accumulated effects of good and bad actions). Rita is the physical order of the universe, the order of the sacrifice, and the moral law of the world. Because of rita, the sun and moon pursue their daily journeys across the sky, and the seasons proceed in regular movement. Vedic religion features the belief that rita was guarded by Varuna, the god-sovereign, who was assisted by Mitra, the god of honour, and that the proper performance of sacrifices to the gods was necessary to guarantee its continuance. Violation (anrita) of the established order by incorrect or improper behaviour, even if unintentional, constituted sin and required careful expiation.
Wednesday 29 March 2017
She hid with Churlish Fudfax who was born in Haiti. Stelletotirri, a guyanese who does not speak any Italian, killed Ms. Huntley though as Vaughn was jealous that she was a stern Anglican school teacher. Then, he put Christine Peercedem in Ms. Huntley's house while Ms. Huntley's brain was kept alive in a radio box as supplied by one of his Central Technician School grade 10 buddies from South Central Los Angeles. Stelletotirri claims to be the King of Haiti. He used to claim to the Roman emperor.
Vaughn Fubertson from Desoronto is pretending to be Warren Augustine Lyon and visits Cuba quite a lot. She tried to graduate at the Univ. of Bangladesh but only wrote one question per exam book in attempting only one question out of the four questions required and obtained a 30% average every year. She re-wrote her final year but only attempted one question out of four. She was arrested.
She hid with Churlish Fudfax who was born in Haiti. Stelletotirri, a guyanese who does not speak any Italian, killed Ms. Huntley though as Vaughn was jealous that she was a stern Anglican school teacher. Then, he put Christine Peercedem in Ms. Huntley's house while Ms. Huntley's brain was kept alive in a radio box as supplied by one of his Central Technician School grade 10 buddies from South Central Los Angeles. Stelletotirri claims to be the King of Haiti. He used to claim to the Roman emperor.
She hid with Churlish Fudfax who was born in Haiti. Stelletotirri, a guyanese who does not speak any Italian, killed Ms. Huntley though as Vaughn was jealous that she was a stern Anglican school teacher. Then, he put Christine Peercedem in Ms. Huntley's house while Ms. Huntley's brain was kept alive in a radio box as supplied by one of his Central Technician School grade 10 buddies from South Central Los Angeles. Stelletotirri claims to be the King of Haiti. He used to claim to the Roman emperor.
I am standing in the way of Dean being a politician but he never told me. I got out of his way when I was driving my Audi. We are great friends. We go way back and he believes. There was University and the Washington trip and Politics 392 on the 30th floor of the Soc.sci building where the front door faces east.
Tuesday 28 March 2017
Tokium(TM) is a new trademark as already claimed for both media and consumer products.
Tokium(TM) is a new trademark as already claimed for both media and consumer products at Londinium Media.
Leia Rescues Luke [1080p] In real life, Leia tells Luke that she wants to know how much he really wants her help and she says he has to go to the other terminal of Cloud City with all of his gear although she knew exactly where he was, drove right by and knew his situation; abusive attention seeking chick.
Filled with 100 RPGs and 10000 rounds of ammunition and powered by a fuel cell, an unmanned aerial vehicle capable of hovering in a stationary position and that will support the defence of troops like the A-10 warthog with the same powerful air support is coming soon. It will be the size of a small Fiat punto for jungle warfare and support of soliders in urban areas and close quarters...Weaponized 2016 BDRip XviD AC3 EVOan
Monday 27 March 2017
I really love white people and I reverence the fact that Jewish Roman people were trusted with building legislation for the propagation of a quiet culture that would lend itself to further growth in North America.
I really love white people and I reverence the fact that Jewish Roman people were trusted with building legislation for the propagation of a quiet culture that would lend itself to further growth in North America. See the magna carta. When the Americans departed, they jettisoned any aspects of the British administration that could be turned upon the people for unscrupulous purposes by unscrupulous beings, usually Creoles from the British West Indies, underlings in the British hierarchy who would stamp their feet on people and mis-apply the legislation to suffocate the growth of the people in peace in attempts to thwart communal progress. They seem to want to kill people and switch them if they solved problems; as if it was some kind of French Creole sub-culture where they jouvert and masquerade. The people found participating in this culture were usually beheaded and dumped off of an Old English Navy Schooner for High treason against the British empire and joint venture in the conspiracy to commit the unlawful killing of another contrary to the King's peace. One popular criminal was named Andreas Jourdine from Aruba; a castration with one leg. John Rae Parnega was also beheaded without trial by a Lord Durham to ensure the people understood the meaning of peace, order and good government. He had killed a Pueblo Indian once and sought asylum from U.S. justice in the British Northern Colonies but continued to kill Indians; especially Indians and Black who could read. He had heard the British give asylum to fugitives like a Harriet Tubman so lots of criminals came north after stage coach robberies and would start businesses like Tip Tap Tailors or Blood Path Sugar. There was an Adam Joye-aux who was a sex operation at 16 years old and who had a very bad disease. He was a victim of a spontaneous jouvert that took place after a nine night in Dominica and since then, she was trying to have a baby by drinking old lady's eggs that she hoped would connect the seed in her belly but she was too diseased after jouvert and refused to drink any white 100% alcohol with camfort to kill the disease. Harriet Tubman was born in Haiti although it is said she was born Maryland. She was a free citizen in Maryland and not a slave. There was no slavery in Georgetown or Pennsylvania. She chose to enter a new English administration in 1860 where slavery was abolished. She may not have had to leave the U.S but there were new and unsettled people who did not have her legal American freedom as a free person in Maryland. She was not fleeing but helping others; some of them were White enslaved peoples who were not formally emancipated until 1865 and who may have originated in Jamaica. The peoples north of the 49th parallel stayed in the quandary of the abuse of British legislation. The Americans took the best of it in the Magna Carta and made it work, bringing growth and securing the speed of colonial progress and the spread of British legal culture and principles; now reflected in the rule of law around much of the world and certainly also in the U.S. in the Uniform Commercial Code. The Cayman Islands is an example of this maintenance of the best of English legal tradition outside of Britain. After the Judicature Acts, England found its way and ensured there was a matter of course in expectation in matters legal and enforcement in all of its administration throughout the Kingdom and its commonwealth and this made England strong. It was also very good for the Black subjects who were tired of piracy and the abuse of Creoles who thought they were earning favor if they embarrassed the governor by stealing mail and mistreating Black people. They arrested rebellious elements on charges of terrorism and treason if not the abuse of public office.
Sunday 26 March 2017
This is not a real equation. People looking for work and who are now in a Job Core but under employed who speak no other language but Canadian-bank robberies+participatory remuneration=lots of vehicle sales for Asian car manufacturers, European Car manufacturers and one American Car manufacturer. !@##! de de de de white monkey troglodyte people chanting White West Indies and who screwed up manufacturing in the U.S. and in England since they feared being displaced by automation; as if they were being rejected and told they had no usefulness. Now, attack the roads and bridges so you will feel at home. Smash it up like you smashed up Haiti and had shot all the livestock since you liked seeing a cow blown up with a shot gun. Then, you want to know what pig or flesh there is to eat since you don't want any more fish for dinner. Hey Dude, you were born a female or your brain could not read anything more complicated than a bus transfer and all the people in Desoronto seem to act like it. The city dies before it grows because you are a cork soaker and Blackbeard must have had too many cocksuckers to give him comfort on those ocean journeys to oblivion. Now, you are a pastor. All is resolved and every citizen has an equal income support of no less than $120,000.00 per year.
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The Revenant - Bear Attack Scene(GRAPHIC). The bear is your son in North America who left High School with grade 10 like you told him and he hasn't found the job you thought he would find and nor is he able to go to school because he is a criminal on drugs and he is very angry. The white man in this clip is North American Society and also you without your son, your daughter or yourself earning participatory remuneration. You could have told the kid he is the son of a White nigger from the West Indies like Bleggs and an orphan. But, not all White people from the West Indies are niggers like Parking Officer Bleggs who is a !@#!# bum. But, North America can bring more Asian people with their participatory remuneration to pay lease spaces for nail salons, dry cleaners and restaurants and you can get the fortune cookie. I know you imagine yourself being English all day but the Irish and the Scots left also. Emotional dependency is not the issue as you hope to be rewarded for your loyalty. Why don't you pretend to be Danish and walk on your own. South Africa, Australia and New Zealand left the idiocy of England, its common poverty, not wealth, and its lack of participatory remuneration as people on this earth who speak no other language but English. They have participatory remuneration now. The dark haired Guyanese orphans in England who became rock stars and porn stars in the 1980's became politicians under Blair and Brown and then they turned on them and the country with Cameron.
Leon 2: Stansfield.
Stansfield is a computer who confesses that he went too far in enforcing his authority with an undercover dealer when he killed his family
He obviously needed some money and could have asked however. Killing the dealer would have been enough. You could just take him downstairs and shoot him in a cruiser far from the eyesight of his children. He would have had to cover the family afterwards but lying to Stan confesses that the father had learning difficulty like Ms. Resid who gave the blonde girls a D so that she could defend her self. Ms. Huntry gave them an A; some kind of feminazi warfare. Dean was born in Haiti and shot the cops first. His brain is out on trial to testify about the unauthorized and excessive use of force. He also decided that the best way to deal with people like him on the force is to give them the authority they deserve in the Army Rangers where they will get an honorable funeral after their first day of army training. It's just that people like him cause too much terrorism in the Brit Milah which is an internal war on society. They can go to war somewhere else.
Leon's brain was retrieved by his father who was a French General. He was resuscitated in a pool of amniotic fluid and growth hormone. He lived quietly 30 miles north of Paris, had a wife and a daughter who looked a little like Matilda. Matilda became DEA after graduating from MIT Law School as she wrote her own essays.
Her Masters involved the ten commandments, Hammurabi's code and automated services in airports, hotels, supermarkets and banks to maximize 100% loss prevention in teller or cashier services. In one month, there weren't any bank tellers in the U.S. but just automated machines, a foreign exchange Cash cage in every branch with bullet proof glass and a shutter that would role down if they were threatened. In addition to this, customer service personnel to assist with questions were available during normal branch hours.
She got to Paris on a tip and mentions Leon in a Restaurant owned by the same Tony who helped Leon in New York. She sort of recognized it was Tony who did tell her to look for him in the Paris suburbs if she needed anything. This was just after he paid her tuition and set her up with a cousin in Boston for some covering. He told her the same thing he tells the Black boys and all the other kids n the neighborhood; that they need two educations and he will protect the sanctity of the telephone lines and the new fibre optic communications with his people who have people every where! Tony tells Leon and he sends people to watch her although it is not clear as to why she is in the Paris area or whether she is just a tourist. She is eventually taken hostage by North African drug dealers from Marseilles who are trying to take territory in New York. They wanted to take over the police and run it like the Blackbeard and the uneducated White Jamaicans having his mutiny on the bounty in the Police Services in Desoronto and London, UK with Jamaica since the American does not know how to play hegemony games where they contaminate your soap in your house and spit in your fridge in McLean, Virginia. Bill did. Laugh at the grade 8 educated police officers in Desoronto playing cops and robbers. Laugh at them and point to the billboard above their heads so they can't say you were disturbing their peace. It's not an offense to laugh at stupid bill boards of human shame. It's not a criminal offence to laugh at bum bank robbing terrorists. Laugh at them. They are afraid someone will find out they can't read more than a cereal box so they terrorize the population. They wanted pass codes to the DEA mainframe with information on all their under cover drug operators and their families, shipments and deals. Leon sends his son to rescue her. She is rescued and then Leon tells her to go home and to have a husband and that if she did not understand a husband, she should have a boyfriend forever.
By Warren A. Lyon.
He obviously needed some money and could have asked however. Killing the dealer would have been enough. You could just take him downstairs and shoot him in a cruiser far from the eyesight of his children. He would have had to cover the family afterwards but lying to Stan confesses that the father had learning difficulty like Ms. Resid who gave the blonde girls a D so that she could defend her self. Ms. Huntry gave them an A; some kind of feminazi warfare. Dean was born in Haiti and shot the cops first. His brain is out on trial to testify about the unauthorized and excessive use of force. He also decided that the best way to deal with people like him on the force is to give them the authority they deserve in the Army Rangers where they will get an honorable funeral after their first day of army training. It's just that people like him cause too much terrorism in the Brit Milah which is an internal war on society. They can go to war somewhere else.
Leon's brain was retrieved by his father who was a French General. He was resuscitated in a pool of amniotic fluid and growth hormone. He lived quietly 30 miles north of Paris, had a wife and a daughter who looked a little like Matilda. Matilda became DEA after graduating from MIT Law School as she wrote her own essays.
Her Masters involved the ten commandments, Hammurabi's code and automated services in airports, hotels, supermarkets and banks to maximize 100% loss prevention in teller or cashier services. In one month, there weren't any bank tellers in the U.S. but just automated machines, a foreign exchange Cash cage in every branch with bullet proof glass and a shutter that would role down if they were threatened. In addition to this, customer service personnel to assist with questions were available during normal branch hours.
She got to Paris on a tip and mentions Leon in a Restaurant owned by the same Tony who helped Leon in New York. She sort of recognized it was Tony who did tell her to look for him in the Paris suburbs if she needed anything. This was just after he paid her tuition and set her up with a cousin in Boston for some covering. He told her the same thing he tells the Black boys and all the other kids n the neighborhood; that they need two educations and he will protect the sanctity of the telephone lines and the new fibre optic communications with his people who have people every where! Tony tells Leon and he sends people to watch her although it is not clear as to why she is in the Paris area or whether she is just a tourist. She is eventually taken hostage by North African drug dealers from Marseilles who are trying to take territory in New York. They wanted to take over the police and run it like the Blackbeard and the uneducated White Jamaicans having his mutiny on the bounty in the Police Services in Desoronto and London, UK with Jamaica since the American does not know how to play hegemony games where they contaminate your soap in your house and spit in your fridge in McLean, Virginia. Bill did. Laugh at the grade 8 educated police officers in Desoronto playing cops and robbers. Laugh at them and point to the billboard above their heads so they can't say you were disturbing their peace. It's not an offense to laugh at stupid bill boards of human shame. It's not a criminal offence to laugh at bum bank robbing terrorists. Laugh at them. They are afraid someone will find out they can't read more than a cereal box so they terrorize the population. They wanted pass codes to the DEA mainframe with information on all their under cover drug operators and their families, shipments and deals. Leon sends his son to rescue her. She is rescued and then Leon tells her to go home and to have a husband and that if she did not understand a husband, she should have a boyfriend forever.
By Warren A. Lyon.
Answer the final economic variable with participatory remuneration. Creative people with protected phone lines and communications will make an additional $50,000.00 running coffee shops and other services. The greedy and maleficent will try to rob banks. "HEAT" {AL Pacino, Robert DeNiro, Val Kilmer}
Saturday 25 March 2017
So, the Asians need to run the American economy since they need consumers for their goods and vehicles and they also need the U.S. and other English language countries; countries where they speak no other language to pay back government loans instead of starting a war in economic frustration to default on the debt.
So, the Asians need to run the American economy since they need consumers for their goods and vehicles and they also need the U.S. and other English language countries; countries where they speak no other language to pay back government loans instead of starting a war in economic frustration to default on the debt.
The Egyptians and their amazing civilization was certainly a great human civilization. If color needs to be mentioned, they were Black people and these Black people actually have Black and white descendants today.
The Egyptians and their amazing civilization was certainly a great human civilization. If color needs to be mentioned, they were Black people and these Black people actually have Black and white descendants today.
This is not unlike Dr. Carver and FDR who both have Black and White Descendants today!
Have a nice day!
This is not unlike Dr. Carver and FDR who both have Black and White Descendants today!
Have a nice day!
Play a six string and tour or bake bread and sell coffee with your participatory remuneration is back up. It also helps to pay your coffee shop lease.
Play a six string and tour or bake bread and sell coffee with your
participatory remuneration is back up. It also helps to pay your coffee
shop lease.
Carlucci Caldena is pretending to be a Warren at 1103 at the Aurel Building in Toronto. They committing deception offenses in pretending to be fully qualified to talk about Real Estate.
Warren A. Lyon is an English Academic Lawyer and it entitled to write a book or a blog. You can access his volumes of materials and become a member of his service at www.angelronan.wixsite.com/arcconsulting
Warren A. Lyon is an English Academic Lawyer and it entitled to write a book or a blog. You can access his volumes of materials and become a member of his service at www.angelronan.wixsite.com/arcconsulting
Friday 24 March 2017
So, the Matrix was all about getting non-graduate employees at automotive manufacturers and at the post office distribution centers to resent machines. But,this is only relevant in the cultures where they speak no other language but English. Play the six string. Tour and perform in coffee shops whose leases are paid by participatory remuneration. The Asians are bringing their participatory remuneration to lease shops at Steeles and 404 or Beaver Creek and 404. Ya na undastand? A wah do you? Only the Troglodyte in the cultures that speak no other language but English needs a war at the gate of rest in Heaven on earth to prove his value and usefulness as manual labor. Do you think daddy is going to reject you if you do not eat from the sweat of your brow? You will be given participatory remuneration. Isn't stealing sweat? Watch Heat (movie). You are loved. Take participatory remuneration. Won't you come? Play the six string. Make some cookies. Travel like Beatrice Kiddo.Learn something mate.
So, the Matrix was all about getting non-graduate employees at automotive manufacturers and at the post office distribution centers to resent machines. But,this is only relevant in the cultures where they speak no other language but English. Play the six string. Tour and perform in coffee shops whose leases are paid by participatory remuneration. The Asians are bringing their participatory remuneration to lease shops at Steeles and 404 or Beaver Creek and 404. Ya na undastand? A wah do you? Only the Troglodyte in the cultures that speak no other language but English needs a war at the gate of rest in Heaven on earth to prove his value and usefulness as manual labor. Do you think daddy is going to reject you if you do not eat from the sweat of your brow? You will be given participatory remuneration. Isn't stealing sweat? Watch Heat (movie). You are loved. Take participatory remuneration. Won't you come? Play the six string. Make some cookies. Travel like Beatrice Kiddo.Learn something mate.
Uplift...
Uplift may refer to: Geologic uplift and, specifically, tectonic uplift, geological processes. Uplift (science fiction), upgrading the capacities of a species or a civilization.
Uplift - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uplift
So, after turning Japanese or European technologically with the value of automation, the English need to finish their trigonometry exam and let the Europeans give them the Socio-economic equivalent of a McDonald's franchise. But, it seems wasting and throwing away value makes the English feel wealthy; covers the sense of shame or inner poverty.
Sing the England song.
The customers have already chosen fully automated labor for their vehicle's construction and Honda has put small electric regenerative motors in the wheels for fuel economy such that 1km gives you 30 km of driving. You feel good! You could build fully automated vehicles at Dagenham. At least, now you know it has nothing to do with small hands. This is all participatory remuneration cash from Asia but in North America.
Battle of Megiddo (1918)
Battle of Megiddo (1918)
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For other battles fought in the vicinity of Megiddo, see Battle of Megiddo.
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The Battle of Megiddo was the final Allied offensive of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of the First World War. The contending forces were the Allied Egyptian Expeditionary Force, of three corps including one of mounted troops, and the Ottoman Yildirim Army Group which numbered three armies, each the strength of barely an Allied corps. The series of battles took place in what was then the central and northern parts of Ottoman Palestine and parts of present-day Israel, Syria and Jordan. After forces of the Arab Revolt attacked the Ottoman lines of communication, distracting the Ottomans, British and Indian infantry divisions attacked and broke through the Ottoman defensive lines in the sector adjacent to the coast in the set-piece Battle of Sharon. The Desert Mounted Corps rode through the breach and almost encircled the Ottoman Eighth and Seventh Armies still fighting in the Judean Hills. The subsidiary Battle of Nablus was fought virtually simultaneously in the Judean Hills in front of Nablus and at crossings of the Jordan River. The Ottoman Fourth Army was subsequently attacked in the Hills of Moab at Es Salt and Amman.
These battles resulted in many tens of thousands of prisoners and many miles of territory being captured by the Allies. Following the battles, Daraa was captured on 27 September, Damascus on 1 October and operations at Haritan, north of Aleppo, were still in progress when the Armistice of Mudros was signed ending hostilities between the Allies and Ottomans.
The operations of General Edmund Allenby, the British commander of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, achieved decisive results at comparatively little cost, in contrast to many offensives during the First World War. Allenby achieved this through the use of creeping barrages to cover set-piece infantry attacks to break a state of trench warfare and then use his mobile forces (cavalry, armoured cars and aircraft) to encircle the Ottoman armies' positions in the Judean Hills, cutting off their lines of retreat. The irregular forces of the Arab Revolt also played a part in this victory.
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Background
The ancient fortress of Megiddo stands on Tell el-Mutesellim (Tel Megiddo), at the mouth of the Musmus Pass near al-Lajjun, controlling the routes to the north and the interior by dominating the Plain of Armageddon or of Megiddo. Across this plain several armies, from the ancient Egyptians to the French under Napoleon, had fought on their way towards Nazareth in the Galilean Hills. By 1918 this plain, known as the Plain of Esdraelon (the Jezreel Valley in Israeli terms) was still strategically important as it linked the Jordan Valley and the Plain of Sharon 40 miles (64 km) behind the Ottoman front line, and together, these three valleys formed a semicircle round the main Ottoman positions in the Judean Hills held by their Seventh and Eighth Armies.[3][4]Allied situation
The Entente Powers had declared war on the Ottoman Empire in November 1914. In early 1915 and in August 1916 the Ottomans, with German commanders, aid and encouragement, had attacked the Suez Canal, a vital link between Britain and India, Australia and New Zealand. Under General Archibald Murray, the British Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) stopped the Ottoman army at the Battle of Romani and drove them back to Magdhaba and across the Sinai to Rafa to reoccupy Egyptian territory and secure the safety of the Suez Canal. Having constructed a railway and water pipeline across the desert, Murray then attacked southern Palestine. In the First Battle of Gaza and the Second Battle of Gaza in March and April 1917, the British attacks were defeated.In 1916, the Arab Revolt against Ottoman rule had broken out in the Hejaz, led by Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca. Although the Ottomans defended Medina, at the end of the Hejaz Railway against them, part of the Sherifian Army, led by Hussein's son, the Emir Feisal, and British liaison officer T. E. Lawrence, extended the revolt northwards. Finally, Lawrence and bedouin tribesmen won the Battle of Aqaba in July 1917. The capture of the port of Aqaba allowed the Allies to supply Feisal's forces and deprived the Ottomans of a position behind the right flank of the EEF.
General Edmund Allenby had been appointed to succeed Murray in command of the EEF, and was encouraged to renew the offensive. After receiving reinforcements, he broke through the Ottoman defences in the Third Battle of Gaza and defeated an Ottoman attempt to make a stand to the north at the Battle of Mughar Ridge. Despite Ottoman counter-attacks, the EEF captured Jerusalem in the second week in December 1917.
After a pause of several weeks caused by bad weather and the need to repair his lines of communication, Allenby advanced eastward to capture Jericho in February 1918. However, in March, the Germans launched their Spring Offensive on the Western Front, intending to defeat the Allied armies in France and Belgium. Allenby was ordered to send reinforcements (two complete divisions, another 24 infantry battalions from other divisions and nine dismounted yeomanry regiments) to the Western Front.[5] Allenby's tank force was also returned to France.[6] In total approximately 60,000 officers and men were transferred to the Western Front in 1918.[7]
However, Allenby maintained pressure on the Ottoman armies by twice sending mounted and infantry divisions across the Jordan. The first attack briefly cut the Hejaz Railway near Amman before the attackers retreated. In the second attack, Allenby's troops captured Es Salt on the road to Amman, but fell back when their communications were threatened. Despite these failures, Allenby had established two bridgeheads across the Jordan north of the Dead Sea which were retained during the ensuing occupation of the southern Jordan Valley.[8]
Ottoman situation
At the same time (effectively from 8 March), the Ottoman command changed.[9] The highest level Ottoman headquarters in Palestine was the Yıldırım Army Group. (Yıldırım translates roughly as "thunderbolt".[10]) The Army Group had originally been formed to recapture Baghdad which had been captured by the British in March 1917. Instead, it had been diverted to Palestine where the British were close to capturing Jerusalem. The Army Group's commander was the German General Erich von Falkenhayn, who wished to continue a policy of "yielding defence" rather than hold positions at all costs. He was also prepared to retreat to shorten his lines of communication and reduce the need for static garrisons. However, he was unpopular among Ottoman officers, mainly because he relied almost exclusively on German rather than Turkish staff officers, and was blamed for the defeats at Gaza and Jerusalem.[11] He was replaced by another German General, Otto Liman von Sanders, who had commanded the Ottoman defence during the Gallipoli Campaign.[9] Liman reasoned that continued retreat in Palestine would demoralise the troops, ruin their draught animals, encourage the Arab Revolt to spread further north into the Ottoman rear areas and also lead to all the Ottoman forces to the south in the Hejaz being finally isolated.[12] His forces halted their retreat and dug in to resist the British, even reoccupying some ground near the Jordan as Allenby's two raids across the Jordan were repulsed.[13]Until late September 1918, the strategic situation of the Ottoman Empire appeared to be better than that of the other Central Powers. Their forces in Mesopotamia were holding their ground, while in the Caucasus they had captured Armenia, Azerbaijan and much of Georgia in an advance towards the Caspian Sea. Liman von Sanders was expected to repeat his defence of Gallipoli and defeat the British invasion in Palestine.[14]
However, some other commanders were worried about an assault on their extended front in Palestine. They wished to pull their troops back, so an attack would have to cross undefended ground and lose any tactical surprise. However, Liman would have had to abandon what seemed to be good defences and decided that it was too late to pull back.[15]
Allied reorganisation
During the summer of 1918, Allenby's forces were built back up to full strength. Two British Indian Army cavalry divisions, the 4th Cavalry Division and 5th Cavalry Division, arrived from the Western Front and were reorganised to include one British yeomanry regiment in five of their six brigades.[16] Two Indian infantry divisions, the 3rd (Lahore) Division and the 7th (Meerut) Division, were transferred from the Mesopotamian Campaign to replace two divisions which had been sent to the Western Front.[16] Four of Allenby's infantry divisions (the 10th, 53rd, 60th and 75th) were reformed on the pattern of British Indian Army, with three Indian and one British infantry battalion in each brigade[17] except one brigade in the 53rd Division which had one British, one South African and two Indian battalions.[18] The remaining British infantry division, the 54th (East Anglian) Division, retained its all-British composition, although a brigade-sized detachment of French North African and Armenian troops was attached to the division.[17]There was a comparative lull in activity while Allenby's divisions were reorganised and retrained, but some local attacks were made, especially in the Judean Hills. On 19 July, the Ottomans and Germans mounted a brief attack at Abu Tellul near the Jordan, but were defeated by Australian Light Horse regiments with heavy casualties to the German 11th Reserve Jäger battalion, which was subsequently withdrawn from Palestine.[19]
Arab Northern Army
As Allenby's reorganisation proceeded, the Arab Northern Army (part of the Arab Revolt) was operating east of the Jordan under the overall leadership of the Emir Feisal. Feisal's headquarters were at Aba el Lissan, about 15 miles (24 km) south-west of the Ottoman position at Ma'an, and his army received support from the British through the port of Aqaba. Assistance to Feisal included liaison officers, detachments of armoured cars, Indian machine gunners and a French Algerian mountain battery,[20] 2,000 camels from three disbanded battalions of the Imperial Camel Corps Brigade,[21] weapons, ammunition and above all, money (almost always in coin). In mid-1916, this had started as a monthly subsidy of £30,000. By the time Allenby launched his Megiddo offensive, it had grown to £220,000 a month.[22]The 2,000 [23] regular soldiers of the Arab Northern Army maintained a blockade of the Ottoman garrison at Ma'an after an unsuccessful attack at Al-Samna earlier in the year.[24] They were commanded by Jaafar Pasha, formerly an Ottoman officer who had been sent to lead a rebellion against the British by the Senussi in Egypt, but had joined the Arab Revolt after being captured. Most of these regulars were former Arab conscripts in the Ottoman Army who had deserted or, like Jaafar, had changed sides after becoming prisoners of war.[25]
Meanwhile, Arab irregulars raided the Hejaz Railway from Aba-el-Lissan and Aqaba, often accompanied by Lawrence and other British liaison officers.[26] In particular, in the weeks following the failure of Allenby's second attack across the Jordan, they carried out demolitions on a 80 miles (130 km) stretch of line around Mudawara, due east of Aqaba, effectively closing the line for a month and ending Ottoman operations around Medina at the end of the railway.[27]
I do not for one moment denigrate the good name of Lawrence, nor detract from his leadership in the 'Arab Revolt' in Arabia in harassing the Turks, blowing up trains, etc. but when it came to co–operation with Allenby's forces, the Arabs under Lawrence had in my experience, nuisance value only.
— Rex Hall 5th Light Horse Brigade[28]
Prelude
Allenby's plan
Allenby intended to break through the western end of the Ottoman line, where the terrain was favourable to cavalry operations. His horsemen would pass through the gap to seize objectives deep in the Ottoman rear areas and isolate their Seventh and Eighth Armies.[29]As a preliminary move, the Arab Northern Army would attack the railway junction at Daraa beginning on 16 September, to interrupt the Ottoman lines of communication and distract the Yildirim headquarters.[30][31]
The two divisions of XX Corps, commanded by Lieutenant General Philip Chetwode, would make an attack in the Judean Hills beginning on the night of 18 September, partly to further distract Ottoman attention to the Jordan Valley sector, and partly to secure positions from which their line of retreat across the Jordan could be blocked.[12] Once the main offensive by XXI Corps and the Desert Mounted Corps was launched, XX Corps was to block the Ottoman escape route from Nablus to the Jordan crossing at Jisr ed Damieh and if possible capture the Ottoman Seventh Army's headquarters in Nablus.[32][33][34]
The main breakthrough was to be achieved on the coast on 19 September by four infantry divisions of XXI Corps, commanded by Lieutenant General Edward Bulfin, massed on a front 8 miles (13 km) wide. The fifth division of XXI Corps (the 54th) was to make a subsidiary attack 5 miles (8.0 km) inland of the main breach.[12] Once the breakthrough was achieved, the corps, with the 5th Light Horse Brigade attached, would advance to capture the headquarters of the Ottoman Eighth Army at Tulkarm and the lateral railway line by which the Ottoman Seventh and Eighth Armies were supplied, including the important railway junction at Messudieh.[30][33][35]
The strategic move was to be made by the Desert Mounted Corps, commanded by Lieutenant General Harry Chauvel. Its three mounted divisions were massed behind the three westernmost infantry divisions of XXI Corps. As soon as XXI Corps had breached the Ottoman defences, they were to march north to reach the passes through the Carmel Range before Ottoman troops could forestall them, and pass through these to seize the communication centres of Al-Afuleh and Beisan. These two communication centres were within the 60 miles (97 km) radius of a strategic cavalry "bound", the distance mounted units could cover before being forced to halt for rest and to obtain water and fodder for the horses. If they were captured, the lines of communication and retreat for all Ottoman troops west of the Jordan would be cut.[29]
Finally, a detachment consisting of the Anzac Mounted Division, the 20th Indian Infantry Brigade, two battalions of the British West Indies Regiment, and two battalions of Jewish Volunteers in the Royal Fusiliers, amounting to 11,000 men[36][37] commanded by Major General Edward Chaytor and known as Chaytor's Force, was to capture the Jisr ed Damieh bridge and fords in a pincer movement. This important line of communication between the Ottoman Armies on the west bank of the Jordan with the Ottoman Fourth Army at Es Salt, was required by Allenby before Chaytor could proceed to capture Es Salt and Amman.[35][38]
Entente deceptions
Secrecy was an essential part, as it had been at the Battle of Beersheba the preceding year. It was feared that the Ottomans could thwart the preparations for the attack by making a withdrawal in the coastal sector.[39] Laborious efforts were therefore made to prevent the Ottomans discerning Allenby's intentions and to persuade them that the next Entente attack would be made in the Jordan Valley. All westward movements of personnel and vehicles from the Jordan Valley towards the Mediterranean coast were made during the night while all movements eastwards were made during daytime. The detached Anzac Mounted Division in the Jordan Valley simulated the activity of the entire mounted corps. Troops marched openly down to the valley by day, and were secretly taken back by lorry at night to repeat the process the next day. Vehicles or mules dragged harrows along tracks to raise dust clouds, simulating other troop movements. Dummy camps and horse lines were constructed and a hotel in Jerusalem was ostentatiously commandeered for an Expeditionary Force headquarters.[12][40][41]Meanwhile, the 2nd (British) Battalion of the Imperial Camel Corps joined Arab irregulars in a raid east of the Jordan. They first captured and destroyed the railway station at Mudawara, finally cutting the Hejaz Railway,[42] and then mounted a reconnaissance near Amman, scattering corned beef tins and documents as proof of their presence.[43] Lawrence sent agents to openly buy up huge quantities of forage in the same area.[12] As a final touch, British newspapers and messages were filled with reports of a race meeting to take place on 19 September, the day on which the attack was to be launched.[44]
Though Allenby's deceptions did not induce Liman to concentrate his forces against the River Jordan flank,[45] Allenby was nevertheless able to concentrate a force superior to the Ottoman XXII Corps by nearly five to one in infantry and even more in artillery on the Mediterranean flank, where the main attack was to be made, undetected by the Ottomans.[12] Earlier in the year (on 9 June), units of the 7th (Meerut) Division had captured two hills just inland from the coast, depriving the Ottomans of two important observation points overlooking the Allied bridgehead north of the Nahr-el-Auja.[46] Also, the Royal Engineers had established a bridging school on the Nahr-al-Auja much earlier in the year, so the sudden appearance of several bridges across it on the eve of the assault did not alert any other Ottoman observers.[47]
Entente air superiority
A group of German prisoners captured during the fight at Semakh on the Sea of Galilee.
Ottoman dispositions
Under the Yildirim Army Group were, from west to east: the Eighth Army (Jevad Pasha) which held the front from the Mediterranean coast to the Judean Hills with five divisions (one of which had recently arrived at Et Tire, a few miles behind the front lines), a cavalry division and the German "Pasha II" detachment, equivalent to a regiment; the Seventh Army (Mustafa Kemal Pasha) which held the front in the Judean Hills to the Jordan River with four divisions and a German regiment; and the Fourth Army (Jemal Mersinli Pasha), which was divided into two groups: one faced the bridgeheads which Allenby's forces had seized over the Jordan with two divisions, while the other defended Amman and Ma'an and the Hejaz Railway against attacks by Arab forces with two divisions, a cavalry division and some miscellaneous detachments.[49]In August 1918, the Yildirim Army Group's front-line strength was 40,598 infantrymen armed with 19,819 rifles, 273 light and 696 heavy machine guns,[50][clarification needed] and 402 guns.[1]
Although the Ottomans had fairly accurately estimated the total Allied strength, Liman lacked intelligence on the Allied plans and dispositions and was forced to dispose his forces evenly along the entire length of his front. Moreover, almost his entire fighting strength was in the front line. The armies' only operational reserves were the two German regiments and the two understrength cavalry divisions. Further back there were no strategic reserves other than some "Depot Regiments", not organised as fighting units, and scattered garrisons and line of communication units.[citation needed]
After four years of warfare, most Ottoman units were understrength and demoralised by desertions, sickness and shortage of supplies (although supplies were not short at Damascus when Desert Mounted Corps arrived there on 1 October 1918. It was possible to find food and forage for three cavalry divisions; 20,000 men and horses "without depriving the inhabitants of essential food."[51]). Liman nevertheless relied on the determination of the Turkish infantry and the strength of their front-line fortifications.[50] Although the numbers of artillery pieces and especially of machine guns among the defenders were unusually high, the Ottoman lines had only thin belts of barbed wire compared with those on the Western Front,[52] and Liman was unable to take into account the improved British tactical methods in set-piece offensives, involving surprise and short but accurate artillery preparation based on aerial reconnaissance.[53]
Battle
Opening attacks
On 16 September 1918, Arabs under T. E. Lawrence and Nuri as-Said began destroying railway lines around the vital rail centre of Daraa, at the junction of the Hedjaz Railway which supplied the Ottoman army at Amman and the Palestine Railway which supplied the Ottoman armies in Palestine. Lawrence's initial forces (a Camel Corps unit from Feisal's Army, an Egyptian Camel Corps unit, some Gurkha machine gunners, British and Australian armoured cars and French mountain artillery) were soon joined by up to 3,000 Ruwallah and Howeitat tribesmen under noted fighting chiefs such as Auda abu Tayi and Nuri es-Shaalan. Although Lawrence was ordered by Allenby only to disrupt communications around Daraa for a week and Lawrence himself had not intended a major uprising to take place in the area immediately, to avoid Ottoman reprisals, a growing number of local communities spontaneously took up arms against the Turks.[54][55]As the Ottomans reacted, sending the garrison of Al-Afuleh to reinforce Daraa,[56] the units of Chetwode's Corps made attacks in the hills above the Jordan on 17 and 18 September. The 53rd Division attempted to seize ground commanding the road system behind the Ottoman front lines. Some objectives were captured but a position known to the British as "Nairn Ridge" was defended by the Ottomans until late on 19 September. Once it was captured, roads could be constructed to link the British road systems with those newly captured.[57]
At the last minute, an Indian deserter had warned the Turks about the impending main attack. Refet Bey, the commander of the Ottoman XXII Corps on the Eighth Army's right flank, wished to withdraw to forestall the attack but his superiors Jevad Pasha, commanding the Ottoman Eighth Army, and Liman (who feared that the deserter was himself an attempted intelligence bluff) forbade him to do so.[12][55]
A side view of the Handley–Page 0/400 of No. 1 Squadron, Australian
Flying Corps frequently piloted by Captain Ross Macpherson Smith
Breakthrough of Ottoman line
Main article: Battle of Sharon (1918)
At 4:30am, Allenby's main attack by XXI Corps opened. A barrage by
385 guns (the field artillery of five divisions, five batteries of 60-pounder guns, thirteen siege batteries of medium howitzers and seven batteries of the Royal Horse Artillery),[64] 60 trench mortars and two destroyers off the coast fell on the Ottoman 7th and 20th Divisions' front-line positions defending Nahr el Faliq.[64]
As the opening bombardment turned to a "lifting" barrage at 4:50am, the
British and Indian infantry advanced and quickly broke through the
Ottoman lines.[52] Within hours, the Desert Mounted Corps were moving north along the coast, with no Ottoman reserves available to check them.From 10.00 hours onwards, a hostile aeroplane observer, if one had been available, flying over the Plain of Sharon would have seen a remarkable sight – ninety–four squadrons, disposed in great breadth and in great depth, hurrying forward relentlessly on a decisive mission – a mission of which all cavalry soldiers have dreamed, but in which few have been privileged to partake.According to Woodward, "concentration, surprise, and speed were key elements in the blitzkrieg warfare planned by Allenby."[66] By the end of the first day of battle, the left flank unit of the British XXI Corps (the 60th Division) had reached Tulkarm[67] and the remnants of the Ottoman Eighth Army were in disorderly retreat under air attack by Bristol F.2 Fighters of No. 1 Australian Squadron, through the defile at Messudieh and into the hills to the east, covered by a few hastily organised rearguards. Jevad Pasha, the army commander, had fled, and Mustafa Kemal Pasha at Seventh Army headquarters was unable to re-establish control over Eighth Army's troops.[citation needed]
— Lieutenant Colonel Rex Osborn in The Cavalry Journal.[65]
Throughout the day, the RAF prevented any of the German aircraft based at Jenin from taking off and interfering with the British land operations. Relays of two S.E.5s from Nos. 111 and 145 Squadrons, armed with bombs, circled over the German airfield at Jenin all day on 19 September. Whenever they spotted any movement on the ground, they bombed the airfield. Each pair of aircraft were relieved every two hours, machine-gunning the German hangars before departing.[68]
Encirclement of two Ottoman Armies
Progress of the battle, 19–24 September 1918
Main articles: Battle of Tulkarm, Battle of Tabsor, Battle of Arara, Battle of Nazareth, Capture of Afulah and Beisan, Capture of Jenin, and Battle of Haifa (1918)
During the early hours of 20 September 1918, the Desert Mounted Corps secured the defiles
of the Carmel Range. The 4th Mounted Division passed through these to
capture Afulah and Beisan, complete with the bulk of two depot
regiments. A brigade of the 5th Mounted Division attacked Nazareth,
where Liman von Sanders's HQ was situated, although Liman himself
escaped. In the late afternoon a brigade from the Australian Mounted
Division occupied Jenin, capturing many retreating Ottomans. The 15th Imperial Service Cavalry Brigade, of the 5th Mounted Division, captured the port of Haifa on 23 September.[67][69]Once nothing stood between Allenby's forces and Mustafa Kemal's Seventh Army in Nablus, Kemal decided that he lacked sufficient men to fight the British forces.[70] With the railway blocked, the Seventh Army's only escape route lay to the east, along the Nablus-Beisan road that led down the Wadi Fara into the Jordan valley.[71]
Yildirim Army Group carts and gun carriages destroyed by EEF aircraft on the Nablus-Beisan road
According to Chauvel's biographer, Allenby's plan for the Battle of Megiddo was as "brilliant in execution as it had been in conception; it had no parallel in France or on any other front, but rather looked forward in principle and even in detail to the Blitzkrieg of 1939."[74] Over the next four days, the 4th Cavalry Division and Australian Mounted Division rounded up large numbers of demoralised and disorganised Ottoman troops in the Jezreel Valley. Many of the surviving refugees who crossed the Jordan were attacked and captured by Arabs as they approached or tried to bypass Daraa.[citation needed]
Main article: Battle of Samakh (1918)
Liman deployed a rearguard to hold Samakh, on the Sea of Galilee. This town was to be the centre of a line stretching from Lake Hule to Daraa.
A charge by one and a half Australian Light Horse regiments before dawn
on 25 September, followed by intense hand-to-hand fighting, eventually
captured the town. This victory broke the proposed defensive line and
ended the Battle of Sharon.[75][76]Judean Hills fighting
Main article: Battle of Nablus (1918)
As the Desert Mounted Corps and XXI Corps achieved their objectives,
the units of XX Corps resumed their advance. Nablus was captured about
noon on 21 September by the 10th Division and the Australian 5th Light
Horse Brigade from XXI Corps. The British 53rd Division halted its
advance towards the Wadi el Fara road when it became clear that the
retreating Ottomans had effectively been destroyed by aerial attacks.
Transjordan theatre of operations 21 March to 2 April; 30 April to 4 May and 20 to 29 September 1918
Later operations around Daraa
German and Turkish aircraft had continued to operate from Daraa, harassing the Arab irregulars and insurgents still attacking railways and isolated Ottoman detachments about the town. At Lawrence's urging, British aircraft began operating from makeshift landing strips at Um el Surab nearby from 22 September. Three Bristol F.2 Fighters shot down several of the German aircraft. The Handley Page 0/400 ferried across petrol, ammunition and spares for the fighters and two Airco DH.9s, and itself bombed the airfield at Daraa early on 23 September and nearby Mafraq on the following night.[77]Capture of Amman
Main article: Third Transjordan attack (1918)
On 22 September, on the western side of the Jordan River, the Ottoman
53rd Division was attacked at its headquarters near the Wadi el Fara
road, by units from Meldrum's Force. This force consisted of the New
Zealand Mounted Brigade (commanded by Brigadier General W. Meldrum), the
Machine Gun Squadron, the mounted sections of the 1st and 2nd British
West Indies Regiment, the 29th Indian Mountain Battery and Ayrshire (or
Inverness) Battery RHA. Meldrum's force captured the commander of the
53rd Division, its headquarters and 600 prisoners, before defeating
determined Ottoman rearguards to capture the Jisr ed Damieh bridge.[78][79][80][81]The Ottoman Fourth Army had remained in its positions until 21 September, apparently unaware of the destruction of the Ottoman armies west of the Jordan until refugees reached them. That day, Liman ordered the Fourth Army to retreat to Daraa and Irbid, about 18 miles (29 km) to the west. The Fourth Army began to retreat from the Jordan and Amman on 22 September in increasing disorder due to attacks by British and Australian aircraft on 23 September which caused heavy casualties to the retreating troops on the roads between Es Salt and Amman. On the same day, Chaytor's Force advanced across the Jordan River to capture Es Salt.[82][83]
On 25 September the Ottoman troops who had reached Mafraq by train from Amman, but who could proceed no further because the railway ahead was demolished, came under heavy aerial attack which caused many casualties and much disorder. Many Ottoman soldiers fled into the desert but several thousand maintained some order and, having abandoned their wheeled transport, continued to retreat northwards towards Daraa on foot or horseback, under constant air attack.[82]
Chaytor's Force captured Amman on 25 September.[79] The Ottoman detachment from Ma'an, also trying to retreat northwards, found its line of retreat blocked at Ziza, south of Amman, and surrendered intact to the Anzac Mounted Division on 28 September, rather than risk slaughter by Arab irregulars.[83][84]
| “ | I desire to convey to all ranks and all arms of the Force under my command, my admiration and thanks for their great deeds of the past week, and my appreciation of their gallantry and determination, which have resulted in the total destruction of the VIIth and VIIIth Turkish Armies opposed to us. Such a complete victory has seldom been known in all the history of war. | ” |
| — E. H. H. Allenby General Commander in Chief EEF 26 September 1918[85] | ||
Aftermath
Main articles: Battle of Jisr Benat Yakub, Charge at Irbid, Charge at Kaukab, Charge at Kiswe, Capture of Damascus (1918), Pursuit to Haritan, and Battle of Aleppo (1918)
Capture of Damascus
Allenby now ordered his cavalry to cross the Jordan, to capture Daraa and Damascus. Meanwhile, the 3rd (Lahore) Division advanced north along the coast towards Beirut and the 7th (Meerut) Division advanced on Baalbek in the Beqaa Valley, where the rearmost Ottoman depots and reinforcement camps were situated.[citation needed]On 27 September, the 4th Mounted Division moved to Daraa, which had already been abandoned to Arab forces, and then advanced north on Damascus in company with them. The retreating Ottomans committed several atrocities against hostile Arab villages; in return, the Arab forces took no prisoners. Almost an entire Ottoman brigade (along with some German and Austrians) was massacred near the village of Tafas on 27 September, with the commander Jemal Pasha[citation needed]narrowly escaping. The Arabs repeated the performance the next day, losing a few hundred casualties while wiping out nearly 5,000 Turks in these two battles.[citation needed]
The 5th Mounted and Australian Mounted Divisions advanced directly across the Golan Heights towards Damascus. They fought actions at Benat Yakup, Kuneitra, Sasa and Katana, before they reached and closed the north and north-west exits from Damascus on 29 September.[86] On 30 September, the Australians intercepted the garrison of Damascus as they tried to retreat through the Barada gorge. Damascus was captured the next day, with the Allies capturing 20,000 prisoners.[87] Jemal Pasha fled, having failed to inspire last-ditch resistance.
Overall, the campaign to the fall of Damascus resulted in the surrender of 75,000 Ottoman soldiers.[87]
Pursuit to Aleppo
After the fall of Damascus, the 5th Mounted Division and some detachments of the Arab Northern Army advanced north through Syria, capturing Aleppo on 26 October. They subsequently advanced to Mouslimmiye, where Mustafa Kemal (who had replaced Liman von Sanders in command of the Yıldırım Army Group) had rallied some troops under XXII Corps HQ. Kemal held his positions until 31 October, when hostilities ceased following the signing of the Armistice of Mudros.[citation needed]Effects
The successful action at Megiddo resulted in the battle honour "Megiddo" being awarded to units of the British, Dominion and Empire forces participating in the battle. Battle honours for the two subsidiary battles of Sharon and Nablus were also awarded.[88]Edward Erickson, a historian of the Ottoman Army, later wrote:
The Battle of the Nablus Plain ranks with Ludendorff's Black Days of the German Army in the effect that it had on the consciousness of the Turkish General Staff. It was now apparent to all but the most diehard nationalists that the Turks were finished in the war. In spite of the great victories in Armenia and in Azerbaijan, Turkey was now in an indefensible condition, which could not be remedied with the resources on hand. It was also apparent that the disintegration of the Bulgarian Army at Salonika and the dissolution of the Austro–Hungarian Army spelled disaster and defeat for the Central Powers. From now until the Armistice, the focus of the Turkish strategy would be to retain as much Ottoman territory as possible.[89]
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