View of Jerusalem showing Jaffa Road with an inset photograph of British general Edmund Allenby who captured the city from the Turks on December 11, 1917.
La Ciudad Santa tomado a los turcos. Vista de Jerusalén, en la cual aparece el camino de Jafa. (En el grabado inserto aparece Sir Edmund Allenby, comandante de las tropas británicas que operan en Palestina).The Holy City taken from the Turks. View of Jerusalem, showing Jaffa Road. (Sir Edmund Allenby, commander of British troops operating in Palestine appears in the insert recorded).S1
"Allenby's order were issued on 9 September. As well as virtually all the available infantry and cavalry, every artillery piece in the theatre, 380 guns and 172 howitzers, would be employed, and ammunition was to be available on a scale hitherto unknown. In all, over six hundred lorries and tractor/trailer combinations would be available to haul ammunition and supplies and move heavy guns as required, and in order to facilitate their passage in the all-important coastal strip a total of ten bridges — all but two of them capable of taking 60-pounder guns — had been constructed over the Nahr el Auja between its mouth and Ferrikhiye, eleven kilometers inland. All six of the Royal Air Force's squadrons would be employed, and great store was set on securing German/Turkish aerodromes — especially that at Jenin — for their use as soon as possible."
Under the command of General Edmund Allenby, the British entered Jerusalem on December 11, 1917, then continued advancing along the Mediterranean coast in Palestine. In an attack launched on March 8, Allenby tried but failed to take Nablus, attacking across the Jordan River at the same time. Further attacks were suspended after the success of Germany's Spring offensives made the Allied position on the Western Front desperate, and demanded men and materiel in France. With the ultimate German failure and the success of Allied offensives beginning in July, Allenby could resume his suspended campaign. He would do so on September 19.
Eden to Armageddon: World War I in the Middle East by Roger Ford, pp. 373–374, copyright © Roger Ford 2010, publisher: Pegasus Books, publication date: 2010
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