Syria and Palestine Front: Judea and Samaria with Jerusalem to the south, Nablus to the north, the Mediterranean to the west and Dead Sea to the south. From Palestine and Syria with Routes through Mesopotamia and Babylonia and with the Island of Cyprus, by Karl Baedeker.
Southern Palestine
"The next — the main — objective was Tel Asur, the highest point of the Judaean hills north of Jerusalem, at an elevation of just over 1,000 metres. It fell to the 5th Royal Welch Fusiliers at around 0930, and the 1st Herefords then went on to capture Chipp Hill to the north, but were soon driven back off it. The Turks briefly retook the main summit, too, but were driven back almost immediately by the 6th RWF which had advanced through its sister-battalion. During the course of the day the Turks tried four more times to retake the vantage point — from which one could see Mount Hermon, 150km away, in the north, eastward to Gilead and Moab and across most of the Dead Sea, southward to Hebron and westward to the Mediterranean — but with no success and at considerable cost."
British under the command of General Edmund Allenby entered Jerusalem on December 11, 1917, and continued advancing along the Mediterranean coast in Palestine and Syria. Their goal in launching an attack the night of March 8, 1918 was Nablus.
Eden to Armageddon: World War I in the Middle East by Roger Ford, page 366, copyright © Roger Ford 2010, publisher: Pegasus Books, publication date: 2010
1918-03-09, 1918, 03, Palestine, Royal Welch Fusiliers, RWF, Tel Asur, Judaean Hills, Judea and Samaria, Nablus
