The Sinai and Palestine Campaigns took place in the Middle Eastern Theatre of World War I. A series of battles were fought between British Empire, German Empire and Ottoman Empire forces from 26 January 1915 to 31 October 1918, when the Armistice of Mudros was signed between the Ottoman Empire and the Entente Powers.

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  • Die Palästinafront bzw. Sinaifront war ein Nebenkriegsschauplatz im Ersten Weltkrieg. Sie wurde im Januar 1915 durch den Vorstoß des Osmanischen Reiches zum Sueskanal eröffnet, der aber durch das Britische Empire abgewehrt werden konnte. Ein zweiter Vorstoß der Osmanen mit deutscher Unterstützung durch das Asien-Korps im Juni 1916 scheiterte. Unmittelbar danach begannen die Briten mit der schrittweisen Rückeroberung der Sinai-Halbinsel und konnten im Dezember 1916 Al-Arisch und im Februar 1917 Rafah einnehmen. Zwei britische Vorstöße auf Gaza im März und April 1917 endeten in Grabenkämpfen und einer britischen Niederlage. Erst im Oktober nahmen die reorganisierten Briten Beersheba und kurz darauf im dritten Anlauf Gaza ein. Im Dezember folgte die Schlacht um Jerusalem und im Februar 1918 Jericho. Der britische Anlauf auf Amman schlug fehl, was erneut zu monatelangem Grabenkrieg im Jordantal führte. Mit der Landung der Briten vom Mittelmeer konnte am 18. und 19. September die entscheidende Schlacht bei Megiddo mit einem britischen Sieg herbeigeführt werden. Die Schlacht bei Megiddo und die kurz darauf erfolgte Einnahme von Damaskus stellten zudem den Schlusspunkt der britisch-osmanischen Mesopotamienfront und der Arabischen Revolte dar. Das Osmanische Reich musste am 30. Oktober 1918 dem Waffenstillstand von Mudros zustimmen, der nicht nur eine alliierte Besetzung der bisherigen arabischen Provinzen, sondern auch der Meerengen und großer Teile Anatoliens vorsah.
  • The Sinai and Palestine Campaigns took place in the Middle Eastern Theatre of World War I. A series of battles were fought between British Empire, German Empire and Ottoman Empire forces from 26 January 1915 to 31 October 1918, when the Armistice of Mudros was signed between the Ottoman Empire and the Entente Powers. On 26 January 1915, an Ottoman force invaded the Sultanate of Egypt, a British protectorate, and unsuccessfully attempted to interrupt the vital supply line running through the Suez Canal, due to the defenders strength. While remaining on the defensive, early in 1916 British Empire units began to push their front line eastwards from the Suez Canal into the Sinai Peninsula. This eastward movement of the British front line, was contested when several engagements were fought about Katia and other oases around the middle of the year. By August 1916, two British Empire divisions had been established in a strongly entrenched defensive position at Romani, where they were attacked by a substantial German commanded Ottoman army, which was defeated. The two defending divisions; the Australian and New Zealand Mounted Division and the 52nd (Lowland) Division, subsequently pursued the retreating German and Ottoman force back across the northern Sinai, to Bir el Abd where the mounted division attacked a substantial Ottoman rearguard, which retired. The defensive strategy of the British Empire forces having changed to the offensive, employed strategic manoeuver when the remaining Ottoman garrisons in the Sinai, at Magdhaba in December 1916 and at Rafa (on the border of Egypt and the Ottoman Empire) in January 1917, were successfully encircled by the Anzac Mounted Division and captured, to reclaim the Sinai Peninsula. In 1917 British Empire forces extended their area of operation to invade Ottoman Palestine, fighting two unsuccessful battles against strong Ottoman defences at Gaza in March when mounted brigades again employed manoeuver to successfully encircled the town, and in April. At the end of October, after six months of preparations, reconnaissances and minor operations the Egyptian Expeditionary Force succeeded in employing strategic manoeuver to encircle Beersheba with infantry and mounted divisions, resulting in the capture of the town. After a week's determined fighting the whole Gaza to Beersheba line was captured and during the successful pursuit the Egyptian Expeditionary Force conducted a fighting advance northwards, to capture Jaffa by mid November, then into the Judean Hills to capture Jerusalem in December 1917. The front line which now ran from just north of Jaffa to just north of Jerusalem was extended in February 1918 into the Jordan Valley when Jericho was captured, beginning the seven month's long occupation of the valley. During this time a British Empire infantry and mounted force advanced eastwards into the hills of Moab to capture Es Salt and attach Ottoman lines of communication at Amman at the end of March and at the end of April a slightly larger infantry and mounted force attacked Shunet Nimrin and recaptured Es Salt. The territory captured during both these operations could not be held and both ended in the withdrawal of three divisions of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force back to the Jordan Valley. In mid September 1918 during the successful encirclement of two German and Ottoman armies in the Judean Hills, Amman was again attacked when the town and substantial Ottoman prisoners from a third Ottoman army, in the area were captured. At the same time the main attack on the Mediterranean coast advanced to cut off and capture substantial Ottoman army units in the Judean Hills. During the subsequent pursuit, several substantial rearguard positions were attacked and defeated before Damascus was captured. British Empire units pushed northwards to reach Aleppo by the time the Armistice with the Ottoman Empire was signed.
  • La Campaña del Sinaí y Palestina fue una serie de batallas que enfrentaron a las fuerzas del Reino Unido, India, Australia y Nueva Zelanda contra las fuerzas del Imperio alemán y el otomano en el marco del Frente del Oriente Medio de la Primera Guerra Mundial, teniendo lugar en la península del Sinaí, Palestina y Siria entre el 28 de enero de 1915 y 28 de octubre de 1918
  • La campagne du Sinaï et de Palestine a pris place sur le front du Moyen-Orient durant la Première Guerre mondiale. Cette série de batailles opposera les forces de l'Empire britannique, de l'Empire allemand et de l'Empire ottoman du 26 janvier 1915 au 31 octobre 1918, date à laquelle l'armistice de Moudros fut signée entre l'Empire ottoman et la Triple-Entente.
  • A palesztin front az első világháború egyik fő hadszíntere a Közel-keleten, a központi hatalmak csapatai és az antant erők vívták három éven át harcaikat a Sínai-félszigeten, Palesztinában és Szíriában a közel-keleti uralom és a Szuezi-csatorna végleges megszerzéséért.
  • La campagna del Sinai e della Palestina del teatro di guerra del Medio Oriente della prima guerra mondiale fu una serie di battaglie che furono combattute nella penisola del Sinai, nella Palestina ed in Siria tra il 28 gennaio 1915 ed il 28 ottobre 1918. Le truppe dell’Impero Britannico (inglesi, indiani, australiani e neozelandesi) si opposero alle forze ottomane, appoggiate dai tedeschi.
  • Kampene i Sinai og Palestina under første verdenskrig ble utkjempet mellom styrker fra Det britiske imperiet mot styrker fra Tyskland og Det osmanske rike i tiden mellom 26. januar 1915 til 31. oktober 1918 da det ble inngått en våpenhvile mellom Det osmanske rike og Trippelententen.
  • A Campanha do Sinai e da Palestina, ocorrida durante o teatro de operações do Oriente Médio, na Primeira Guerra Mundial, foi uma série de batalhas ocorridas na península do Sinai, Palestina e Síria, entre 28 de janeiro de 1915 e 28 de outubro de 1918. Tropas britânicas, indianas, australianas e neozelandesas enfrentaram as forças dos impérios alemão e otomano.
  • Синайско-Палестинская кампания 1915—1918 годов — боевые действия на Синайском полуострове, в Палестине и в Сирии, происходившие во время Первой мировой войны между армиями Антанты (Британская империя при поддержке Франции) с одной стороны и Центральных держав (Османская империя при поддержке Германии) — с другой. Завершились в 1918 году полным разгромом турецких войск.
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  • Indian Princely states
  • *23px Hyderabad
  • *23px Jodhpur
  • *23px Mysore
  • *23px Patiala
  • *23px Alwar
  • *23px Gwalior
  • Arab insurgents
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  • Allied victory
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  • ~57,000
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  • 467,650 men
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  • Erich von Falkenhayn
  • Otto Liman von Sanders
  • Djemal Pasha
  • Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein
  • Edmund Allenby
  • Sir John Maxwell
  • Sir Archibald Murray
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  • --06-07
  • The area across the border, which was soon to be discovered by British reconnaissance patrols, was a revelation to many ... it was "delightful country, cultivated to perfection and the crops look quite good if not better than most English farms, chiefly barley and wheat. The villages were very pretty – a mass of orange, fig and other fruit trees ... The relief of seeing such country after the miles and miles of bare sand was worth five years of a life."
  • Before us stretched the whole position from the Nablus Road on our left to the Jordan valley, four thousand feet below, on our right. Here was the line we had been holding at first, there, a bare stony knoll crowned with a row of Turkish sangars, from which a few black specks could just be made out withdrawing to their day positions. Here a solitary fig-tree marked the spot where we discovered an empty cave-like cistern, round the circular mouth of which clung masses of slender maidenhair fern; there the village in which we tried to obtain figs from the few remaining inhabitants, and only succeeded in getting fleas. A dark, low ridge on the horizon brought back thoughts of the raid that never came off, and then with almost a sheer drop the hills parted and Jordan glistened in the sun, which had not yet breasted our own particular hills. Pale green and yellow, blue and grey, a wonderfully peaceful sight. Our own hills were still little but silhouettes, dark, uninviting lumps of rock. Inhospitable and barren, exposed to every hurricane and downpour, how can we look forward to leaving them with any feeling but pleasure. Generally one does not regret the departure from a place till one has left it, and all its disadvantages fade away through the rose-coloured spectacles of memory. But already I feel sad at the thought of going.
  • Now that the 60th Division is being broken up and reconstituted, I want to express to you and through you to the Division my thanks and my admiration for your work up to now and my good wishes for the future. The Battalions going to another theatre will carry with them a proud record. The Battalions staying here will – whether retaining their old formation or broken up – be the same fine fighters as ever; and they will inspire the new 60th Division with the spirit of the old. To all; to those leaving, us, whose departure I regret; to those remaining with us; I wish Good Fortune and Success.
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  • Allied victory
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  • --05-25
  • Lieutenant Robert Wilson
  • Lieutenant N. Cecil Sommers Down, Gordon Highlanders watching dawn break over the mountains of Moab from an outpost above the Jordan.
  • N. C. Sommers Down an officer in the Gordon Highlanders
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  • Die Palästinafront bzw. Sinaifront war ein Nebenkriegsschauplatz im Ersten Weltkrieg. Sie wurde im Januar 1915 durch den Vorstoß des Osmanischen Reiches zum Sueskanal eröffnet, der aber durch das Britische Empire abgewehrt werden konnte. Ein zweiter Vorstoß der Osmanen mit deutscher Unterstützung durch das Asien-Korps im Juni 1916 scheiterte.
  • The Sinai and Palestine Campaigns took place in the Middle Eastern Theatre of World War I. A series of battles were fought between British Empire, German Empire and Ottoman Empire forces from 26 January 1915 to 31 October 1918, when the Armistice of Mudros was signed between the Ottoman Empire and the Entente Powers.
  • La Campaña del Sinaí y Palestina fue una serie de batallas que enfrentaron a las fuerzas del Reino Unido, India, Australia y Nueva Zelanda contra las fuerzas del Imperio alemán y el otomano en el marco del Frente del Oriente Medio de la Primera Guerra Mundial, teniendo lugar en la península del Sinaí, Palestina y Siria entre el 28 de enero de 1915 y 28 de octubre de 1918
  • La campagne du Sinaï et de Palestine a pris place sur le front du Moyen-Orient durant la Première Guerre mondiale. Cette série de batailles opposera les forces de l'Empire britannique, de l'Empire allemand et de l'Empire ottoman du 26 janvier 1915 au 31 octobre 1918, date à laquelle l'armistice de Moudros fut signée entre l'Empire ottoman et la Triple-Entente.
  • A palesztin front az első világháború egyik fő hadszíntere a Közel-keleten, a központi hatalmak csapatai és az antant erők vívták három éven át harcaikat a Sínai-félszigeten, Palesztinában és Szíriában a közel-keleti uralom és a Szuezi-csatorna végleges megszerzéséért.
  • La campagna del Sinai e della Palestina del teatro di guerra del Medio Oriente della prima guerra mondiale fu una serie di battaglie che furono combattute nella penisola del Sinai, nella Palestina ed in Siria tra il 28 gennaio 1915 ed il 28 ottobre 1918. Le truppe dell’Impero Britannico (inglesi, indiani, australiani e neozelandesi) si opposero alle forze ottomane, appoggiate dai tedeschi.
  • Kampene i Sinai og Palestina under første verdenskrig ble utkjempet mellom styrker fra Det britiske imperiet mot styrker fra Tyskland og Det osmanske rike i tiden mellom 26. januar 1915 til 31. oktober 1918 da det ble inngått en våpenhvile mellom Det osmanske rike og Trippelententen.
  • A Campanha do Sinai e da Palestina, ocorrida durante o teatro de operações do Oriente Médio, na Primeira Guerra Mundial, foi uma série de batalhas ocorridas na península do Sinai, Palestina e Síria, entre 28 de janeiro de 1915 e 28 de outubro de 1918. Tropas britânicas, indianas, australianas e neozelandesas enfrentaram as forças dos impérios alemão e otomano.
  • Синайско-Палестинская кампания 1915—1918 годов — боевые действия на Синайском полуострове, в Палестине и в Сирии, происходившие во время Первой мировой войны между армиями Антанты (Британская империя при поддержке Франции) с одной стороны и Центральных держав (Османская империя при поддержке Германии) — с другой. Завершились в 1918 году полным разгромом турецких войск.
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