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  • First Transjordan attack on Amman
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Strength
  • 6000(xsd:integer)
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Partof
  • the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I
Date
  • --03-21
Commander
  • Enver Pasha
  • Liman von Sanders
  • Asim
  • E. Allenby
  • J. Shea
  • Jemal Pasha
  • E. W. C. Chaytor
  • P. Chetwode
Align
  • right
Caption
  • Ottoman prisoners on their way to Jericho from Es Salt
Width
  • 25.0
Casualties
  • 123(xsd:integer)
  • 215(xsd:integer)
  • 1000(xsd:integer)
  • 1010(xsd:integer)
  • 1700(xsd:integer)
Result
  • Ottoman victory
combatant
  • * * * Arab insurgents
Place
  • From the Jordan River to Es Salt and Amman
Source
  • --05-15
  • A. S. Benbow 9th Company, Imperial Camel Corps Brigade
Conflict
  • 1(xsd:integer)
Quote
  • Pontoons had to be secured very strongly and yet allow for any sudden rise or fall ... These conditions made it a hazardous movement for mounted men, any break during the transit causing immersion in the raging water with little or no hope of surviving."
  • It was, in its way, one of the most daring exploits of the war. A weak division, aided by Australian mounted troops, crossed the Jordan and, cut off from the rest of our army, went clean through the Turks for a distance of forty miles, cut the railway and returned with all their wounded and hundreds of prisoners [but their dead had to be left behind]. Their jumping–off point was a thousand feet below sea level, the railway was four thousand feet above them. There were no roads through the mountains and it rained almost the whole time. They got there in forty–eight hours. When they reached Es Salt the inhabitants turned out en bloc to greet them, standing on the roofs of their houses and loosing off rifles into the air.
Objective
  • establish crossing over the Jordan River, capture Es Salt in the Moab Mountains, advance to capture Amman and cut the Hejaz railway line of communication
Units
  • 3(xsd:integer)
  • 48(xsd:integer)
  • 145(xsd:integer)
  • Fourth Army (Ottoman Empire)
  • German 703rd Infantry Battalion
  • Shea Group * 60th (London) Division * Anzac Mounted Division * Imperial Camel Corps Brigade
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