User:RoslynSKP/Allenby's preparations for maneuver warfare
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Allenby's preparations for maneuver warfare began on his arrival in Egypt at the end of June 1917 during the Stalemate in Southern Palestine, which followed two unsuccessful attacks by the Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) at the first and second against the Ottoman Army forces defending Gaza, during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of World War I. On appointment in 1917, General Edmund Allenby's instructions from the War Office were to make a fighting advance of about 50 miles (80 km) and capture Jerusalem before Christmas, to help sustain the morale of the general public which had been suffering particularly from the successful German Empire's submarine blockade. Operations in Palestine early in 1918 were a low priority while Ludendorff's Spring Offensive in France seriously threatened the British Expeditionary Force from March.[1][2] However by September 1918, Allenby was keen to encourage his "new Indian troops" and his "Arab Allies", by overrunning the Ottoman armies' front line in the Judean Hills, capturing the Seventh and Eighth Armies headquarters at Nablus and Tulkarm, the Jisr ed Damieh crossing of the Jordan River, and Es Salt.[3]
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"Allenby turned the Turks out of their defensive positions [the Gaza to Beersheba line] and went on to capture Jerusalem. Later, at Megiddo in September 1918, he fought the only successful allied campaign of manoeuvre in the entire Great War."[4]