The Battle of Beersheba (Turkish: Birüssebi Muharebesi, German: Schlacht von Beerscheba) [Note 1] was fought on 31 October 1917, when the British Empire 's Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) attacked and captured the Ottoman Empire 's Yildirim Army Group garrison at Beersheba, beginning the Southern Palestine Offensive of the Sinai and Palestine...

In March and April 1917, the British Egyptian Expeditionary Force was stalled along an Ottoman defence line that stretched eastwards from the coastal city of Gaza to Beersheba and beyond.

On 31 October 1917, the heavily fortified town of Beersheba was the scene of a historic charge by the men of the 4th Australian Light Horse Brigade. Commencing at dusk, the brigade stormed the town, using their bayonets as swords in a highly unconventional charge.

The charge of the 4th Australian Light Horse at Beersheba late in the afternoon of 31 October 1917, is remembered as the last great cavalry charge. The assault on Beersheba began at dawn with the infantry divisions of the British XX Corps attacking from the south and south-west.

Beersheba was a heavily fortified town 43 kilometres from the Turkish bastion of Gaza. It anchored the right end of a defensive line that stretched from Gaza on the Mediterranean coast. The first two frontal attacks on Gaza, in March and April 1917, failed.

Oct 31, 2022 · The Battle of Beersheba was the trigger that caused a wave of British victories throughout Syria-Palestine. By December 1917, General Allenby and British Imperial troops had captured Jerusalem. Allenby was the first Christian to capture the holy city since the Medieval era.

On the 31 October 1917, as daylight faded across the Negev Desert, Australian Light Horse Divisions secured the town of Beersheba, bringing to a close a crucial battle in the Sinai Palestine Campaign of World War One.

Oct 30, 2007 · The battle of Beersheba took place on 31 October 1917 as part of the wider British offensive collectively known as the third Battle of Gaza. The final phase of this all day battle was the famous mounted charge of the 4th Light Horse Brigade.

The battle for Beersheba started at about dawn on 31 October 1917 with a bombardment of the Turkish lines facing XX Corps. Progress was steady with fierce hand-to-hand combat taking place in the trenches.

The Southern Palestine offensive, began on 31 October 1917, with the Battle of Beersheba, when the British Empire's Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) under the Command of Field Marshall Edmund Allenby attacked Ottoman Empire forces at the town of Beersheba during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign, of World War I.