- The
Battle of
Magdhaba took
place on 23
December 1916
during the
Defence of
Egypt section of the
Sinai and
Palestine Campaign in the
First World War. The...
-
across the
Sinai Peninsula,
pushing Ottoman forces back in the
Battle of
Magdhaba in
December and the
Battle of Rafa on the
border between the
Egyptian Sinai...
- been
abandoned by the
Ottoman forces, who
retreated to
Magdhaba. The
Turkish outpost of
Magdhaba was some 18
miles (29 km) to the
southeast into the Sinai...
-
Magdhaba-Rafah and Maghdaba-Rafah were
battle honours awarded to
units of the
Australian Imperial Force and the New
Zealand Expeditionary Force that took...
- defenders.
Situated on the
British right flank, the
Egyptian outpost of
Magdhaba was some 23
miles (37 km) to the south-south-east into the
Sinai desert...
- The New
Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade was a
brigade of the New
Zealand Army
during the
First World War.
Raised in 1914 as part of the New
Zealand Expeditionary...
- (1809)
Battle of
Isandlwana (1879)
Battle of
Tannenberg (1914)
Battle of
Magdhaba (1916)
Battle of Rafa (1916)
First Battle of Gaza (1917)
Battle of Beersheba...
- As a
result of the EEF
victories at the
Battle of Romani, the
Battle of
Magdhaba, and the
Battle of Rafa,
fought from
August 1916 to
January 1917, the EEF...
-
reached El
Arish by dawn,
which had been
evacuated by the
Turkish forces.
Magdhaba, with its 2,000-man garrison, was twenty-four
miles (39 km) to the south-east...
-
mounted infantry,
drove German and
Ottoman forces back from
Romani to
Magdhaba and Rafa and out of the
Egyptian Sinai Peninsula in 1916.
After a stalemate...
