Western Ottoman Empire showing the travels of Rafael De Nogales, Inspector-General of the Turkish Forces in Armenia and Military Governor of Egyptian Sinai during the World War, from his book Four Years Beneath the Crescent.
Legend for the author's travels for the years 1915, 1916, 1917, and 1918.
"After the [Second Battle of Gaza] the British entrenched on the line Tell et Tine-Esch Schaluf-El Mansura-Ch. el Maschrafe, particularly protecting their right flank.The Turkish losses in the battle were 391 killed, 1,336 wounded and 242 missing. They captured six British officers and 266 men. The British losses in the battle were estimated by the Turks as very high, and confirmed as such by the British prisoners."
Excerpt from German General Otto Liman von Sanders' account of the Second Battle of Gaza, the main action of which was fought on April 20, 1917. Like the First Battle of Gaza, fought from March 26 to 28, the Second ended in a British defeat, preventing them from advancing on Palestine. The two defeats led to the replacement of General Archibald Murray, commanding British forces in the Middle East from his headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, by General Edmund Allenby. Allenby would build on Murray's methodical construction of roads and supply lines along the Mediterranean coast to support the advance.
Five Years in Turkey by Liman von Sanders, page 167, publisher: The Battery Press with War and Peace Books, publication date: 1928 (originally)
1917-04-21, 1917, April, Gaza, Second Battle of Gaza, Palestine
