The Battle of El Burj (1 December 1917) was an engagement fought during the Battle of Jerusalem in the Sinai and Palestine Campaign. It was fought between the forces of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force on one side and the Yildirim Army Group on the other. The Battle of Jerusalem resulted in the occupation of Jerusalem on 9 December 1917.[1]
^"Battle of El Burj". Australian Light Horse Studies Centre. Retrieved 20 September 2012.
The BattleofElBurj (1 December 1917) was an engagement fought during the Battleof Jerusalem in the Sinai and Palestine Campaign. It was fought between...
List of the main battles in the history of the Ottoman Empire are shown below. The life span of the empire was more than six centuries, and the maximum...
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were under 60. It had been a crucial battle; if ElBurj had been captured the British would have lost the use of the road leading up from Berfilya, and...
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the extension of the railway to Deir el Belah, the headquarters of Eastern Force, to enable "all available troops" to be deployed for battle. Water reservoirs...
olives. During the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of World War I, in the lead up to the 1917 BattleofElBurj, the Australian Light Horse Brigades led by Major-General...
with attacks on Hareira and Sheria on 6–7 November and the continuing Battleof Tel el Khuweilfe, which had been launched by General Edmund Allenby on 1 November...
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is the 828-metre-tall (2,717 ft) Burj Khalifa in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The building gained the official title of "tallest building in the world"...
Tell el-Burj, also Khirbet el-Burj in Arabic (lit. Tell, or Ruin, of the Tower), is an archaeological site located on the Israeli coastal plain of the...
ordered the 1st Light Horse Brigade to reconnoitre Bir elBurj, 12 mi (19 km) along the road from El Arish towards Rafa. The road was found to be suitable...
22nd Mounted Brigade, replacing the 5th Mounted Brigade which returned to ElBurj. That day, the New Zealand Mounted Rifles and the 2nd Light Horse Brigades...
in the far northeastern corner of the enclosure, known as Burj al-Ramla ("Tower of Sand") and Burj al-Hadid ("Tower of Iron") are towers from Saladin's...
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Syrians to end the siege. Syrians took high buildings such as Burj Rizk Achrafieh and BurjEl Murr using snipers and heavy weapons against civilians. The...
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