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The Second Transjordan attack on Shunet Nimrin and Es Salt, officially known by the British as the Second action of Es Salt and by others as the Second Battle of the Jordan, was fought east of the Jordan River between 30 April and 4 May 1918, during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of the First World War. The battle followed the failure of the First Transjordan attack on Amman fought at the beginning April. During this second attack across the Jordan River, fighting occurred in three main areas. The first area in the Jordan Valley between Jisr ed Damieh and Umm esh Shert the Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) defended their advanced position against an attack by units of the Seventh Army based in the Nablus region of the Judean Hills. The second area on the eastern edge of the Jordan Vall

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  • معركة شرق الأردن الثانية ويُسميها البعض بمعركة الأردن الثانية بين قوات دول المركز (المدافعين) وقوات الحلفاء (المهاجمين)، ووقعت في شرق نهر الأردن ما بين 30 أبريل و 4 مايو 1918 بعد نجاح العثمانيين بهزيمة القوات البريطانيّة في معركة شرق الأردن الأولى في بداية شهر أبريل من نفس العام خلال حملة سيناء وفلسطين في الحرب العالمية الأولى. كانت هذه المعركة جزءاً من حملة سيناء وفلسطين البريطانية التي أنتهت بهدنة مودروس التي نصت، مما نصت عليه، باستسلام القوات العثمانية في الولايات العربية (اليمن ، العراق ، سوريا ، الحجاز)، وتبعت تلك الهدنة معاهدة سيفر التي قسمت بلاد الشام بين الإنجليز والفرنسيين مما مهد لإنشاء دول سورية والأردن ولبنان . (ar)
  • The Second Transjordan attack on Shunet Nimrin and Es Salt, officially known by the British as the Second action of Es Salt and by others as the Second Battle of the Jordan, was fought east of the Jordan River between 30 April and 4 May 1918, during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of the First World War. The battle followed the failure of the First Transjordan attack on Amman fought at the beginning April. During this second attack across the Jordan River, fighting occurred in three main areas. The first area in the Jordan Valley between Jisr ed Damieh and Umm esh Shert the Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) defended their advanced position against an attack by units of the Seventh Army based in the Nablus region of the Judean Hills. The second area on the eastern edge of the Jordan Valley where the Ottoman Army garrisons at Shunet Nimrin and El Haud, on the main road from Ghoraniyeh to Amman were attacked by the 60th (London) Division many of whom had participated in the First Transjordan attack. The third area of fighting occurred after Es Salt was captured by the light horse brigades to the east of the valley in the hills of Moab, when they were strongly counterattacked by Ottoman forces converging on the town from both Amman and Nablus. The strength of these Ottoman counterattacks forced the EEF mounted and infantry forces to withdraw back to the Jordan Valley where they continued the Occupation of the Jordan Valley during the summer until mid September when the Battle of Megiddo began. In the weeks following the unsuccessful First Transjordan attack on Amman and the First Battle of Amman, German and Ottoman Empire reinforcements strengthened the defences at Shunet Nimrin, while moving their Amman army headquarters moved forward to Es Salt. Just a few weeks later at the end of April, the Desert Mounted Corps again supported by the 60th (London) Division were ordered to attack the recently entrenched German and Ottoman garrisons at Shunet Nimrin and advance to Es Salt with a view to capturing Amman. Although Es Salt was captured, the attack failed despite the best efforts of the British infantry's frontal attack on Shunet Nimrin and the determined light horse and mounted rifle defences of the northern flank in the Jordan Valley. However, the mounted yeomanry attack on the rear of Shunet Nimrin failed to develop and the infantry attack from the valley could not dislodge the determined Ottoman defenders at Shunet Nimrin. By the fourth day of battle, the strength and determination of the entrenched German and Ottoman defenders at Shunet Nimrin, combined with the strength of attacks in the valley and from Amman in the hills, threatened the capture of one mounted yeomanry and five light horse brigades in the hills, defending Es Salt and attacking the rear of the Shunet Nimrin position, forcing a retreat back to the Jordan Valley. (en)
  • A Segunda Batalha do Jordão, também conhecida como Segunda Acção de Es Salt, foi uma batalha durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial combatida a este do rio Jordão entre o dia 30 de Abril e o dia 4 de Maio de 1918, durante a Campanha do Sinai e Palestina. A batalha foi realizada depois da mal-sucedida Primeira Batalha do Jordão, que havia sido combatida semanas antes. Tal como a primeira batalha, nesta segunda os britânicos não conseguiram avançar, continuando assim na durante o verão até Setembro, quando a Batalha de Megido começou. (pt)
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  • 1,784
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  • *
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  • 1918-05-04 (xsd:date)
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  • Ottoman victory
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  • 7,000 troops
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  • Prisoners captured during the 2nd Transjordan operations marching through Jerusalem May 1918 (en)
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  • 1784 (xsd:integer)
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  • * * * * (en)
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  • Enver Pasha (en)
  • John Shea (en)
  • Harry Chauvel (en)
  • Edmund Allenby (en)
  • Liman von Sanders (en)
  • Edward Chaytor (en)
  • Henry Hodgson (en)
  • Jemal Pasha (en)
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  • Second Transjordan attack on Shunet Nimrin and Es Salt (en)
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  • 0001-04-30 (xsd:gMonthDay)
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  • Capture Shunet Nimrin and Es Salt and in a second phase capture Amman (en)
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  • the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I (en)
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  • In the Jordan Valley at Jisr ed Damieh, at Shunet Nimrin and El Haud and around Es Salt (en)
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  • I have had some local fights; but I am no longer pushing North. The Arabs are doing well, East of Jordan; and I have been helping them by forcing the Turks to keep a big force of all arms opposite my bridgehead on the Jordan. I hope soon to send a considerable mounted force across the Jordan, gain permanent touch with the Arabs and deny to the Turks the grain harvest of the Salt–Madaba area. They depend largely on this grain supply. (en)
  • During these operations east of the Jordan, some useful co-operation with Colonel Lawrence and the more biddable of his warlike Arabs was being achieved by the Australian Light Horse and there is no doubt that the Arabs ... diverted limited Turkish attention and forces from our front." (en)
  • Places were so steep that personally I could only get up by holding on to my horse's tail and most of the way we had to struggle up on foot from the valley, no mean performance for the men carrying their rifles and over a hundred rounds of ammunition in full marching order. [The brigade was] strung out over a distance of possibly or more. (en)
  • I am carrying on some operations, E. of Jordan; and today there has been some busy fighting, in which I have lost some guns. I don't mind losing them, but it is an advertisement for the Turk, which he will not fail to exploit. I was down in the Jordan valley, today. The weather was perfect, fresh and bright, after rain, and mild without heat. (en)
  • The safety of galloping horses in open formation under shell-fire was never more strikingly demonstrated. In the long gallop only six men were killed and 17 wounded. (en)
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  • Ottoman victory (en)
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  • 0001-04-20 (xsd:gMonthDay)
  • 0001-05-01 (xsd:gMonthDay)
  • Henry Gullett (en)
  • Humphrey Kempe, 1st Machine Gun Squadron (en)
  • Brigadier General P.J.V. Kelly, commander of the 5th Mounted Brigade recalled in 1928 (en)
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  • A Segunda Batalha do Jordão, também conhecida como Segunda Acção de Es Salt, foi uma batalha durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial combatida a este do rio Jordão entre o dia 30 de Abril e o dia 4 de Maio de 1918, durante a Campanha do Sinai e Palestina. A batalha foi realizada depois da mal-sucedida Primeira Batalha do Jordão, que havia sido combatida semanas antes. Tal como a primeira batalha, nesta segunda os britânicos não conseguiram avançar, continuando assim na durante o verão até Setembro, quando a Batalha de Megido começou. (pt)
  • معركة شرق الأردن الثانية ويُسميها البعض بمعركة الأردن الثانية بين قوات دول المركز (المدافعين) وقوات الحلفاء (المهاجمين)، ووقعت في شرق نهر الأردن ما بين 30 أبريل و 4 مايو 1918 بعد نجاح العثمانيين بهزيمة القوات البريطانيّة في معركة شرق الأردن الأولى في بداية شهر أبريل من نفس العام خلال حملة سيناء وفلسطين في الحرب العالمية الأولى. . (ar)
  • The Second Transjordan attack on Shunet Nimrin and Es Salt, officially known by the British as the Second action of Es Salt and by others as the Second Battle of the Jordan, was fought east of the Jordan River between 30 April and 4 May 1918, during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of the First World War. The battle followed the failure of the First Transjordan attack on Amman fought at the beginning April. During this second attack across the Jordan River, fighting occurred in three main areas. The first area in the Jordan Valley between Jisr ed Damieh and Umm esh Shert the Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) defended their advanced position against an attack by units of the Seventh Army based in the Nablus region of the Judean Hills. The second area on the eastern edge of the Jordan Vall (en)
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  • معركة شرق الأردن الثانية (ar)
  • Second Battle of the Jordan (en)
  • Segunda Batalha do Jordão (pt)
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