What the records say
- When
- 23 Dec 1916
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 30.89° N, 34.02° E
- Location
- Sinai peninsula, Egypt
- Outcome
- British victory
- Belligerents
- Ottoman Empire vs British Empire, United Kingdom, India, Australia, New Zealand
5 sources record it
- World War I battles (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributorsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0
- Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “WWI: El Arish occupied by the British Empire Desert Column during advance across the Sinai Peninsula”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “prise de Magdhaba par les Britanniques”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “第一次世界大戦: マグドハバの戦い”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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