In September 1918
the Middle East was changed forever in the critical battle between the Turks and
the British, that of Megiddo.
It could be
argued that this was the beginning of the long period of conflict and strife
which has occurred after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.
This article in the National Archive blog tells the story. It is not long but complicated
and clear. It is something that few people today know about and is absent from
many of the histories of the First World War and later.
But this
campaign helped to create the new states and systems that followed and became
the Middle East of today.
The regiment
pictured above is the 9th Hodson's Horse, Bengal Lancers, a key regiment in the
battle.
In Hebrew, the
name is Armageddon.
Interesting. It is odd that important events can virtually drop out of most histories yet they do.
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