Battle of Magdhaba

Wann

23. Dez. 1916

Art

Schlacht

Koordinaten

30.89° N, 34.02° E

Location

Sinai peninsula, Egypt

Outcome

British victory

Belligerents

Ottoman Empire gegen British Empire, United Kingdom, India, Australia, New Zealand

1916 WWI battle on the Sinai peninsula

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 attack by the Anzac Mounted Division took place against an entrenched Ottoman Army garrison to the south and east of Bir Lahfan in the Sinai desert, some 18–25 miles (29–40 km) inland from the Mediterranean coast.

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