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World War 1 - Battle of Beersheba

Time: Wednesday Oct 31, 1917

Place: Beersheba, (Syria this time)

Details: At the end of October, the Sinai and Palestine Campaign resumed, when General Edmund Allenby's XXth Corps, XXI Corps and Desert Mounted Corps (British Crops) won the Battle of Beersheba. Two Ottoman armies were defeated a few weeks later at the Battle of Mughar Ridge.

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