What do you want here? Turkish and British child soldiers on the Suez Canal. After crossing the Sinai Peninsula during January, 1915, a Turkish army of approximately 12,000 soldiers reached the Suez Canal on February 2, and tried to cross after nightfall, but were driven back. On the 3rd, the British crossed the canal, and struck the Turkish left flank, driving them back. By February 10, the Turks had evacuated the Peninsula.
Was willst Du hier?What do you want here?Suez-KanalReverse:A.R. & C.i.B. No. 718/4
"The main army of the Turks, which had now dwindled to 12,000 men, arrived at the canal on February 2d. A skirmish near Ismailia Ferry was suddenly terminated by a violent sandstorm. After nightfall, however, the Turkish Army hauled some 30 pontoon boats to the banks of the canal at Toussoun, 12 miles below Ismailia, and attempted to cross. The British troops opened fire with maxim guns, which took a heavy toll in lives. The Turks brought several batteries of field guns into action, but failed to silence the British batteries."
A Turkish army of 65,000 men advanced from Constantinople to the Sinai Peninsula to seize the Suez Canal from the British. Before its arrival, and after a November 21, 1914 skirmish between the British and 2,000 Bedouins, the British had enhanced their defenses of the canal, in part by breaking through the canal dyke to flood the desert to the east. British gunships and French warships patrolled the Bitter Lakes and flooded land through and along which which the canal ran. The Turkish force had been significantly diminished by the time it reached the canal.
King's Complete History of the World War by W.C. King, page 139, copyright © 1922, by W.C. King, publisher: The History Associates, publication date: 1922
1915-02-02, 1915, February, Suez Canal, Suez, Egypt
