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 * ==Battle of Romania==
 * When: August 3-5, 1916
 * Where: Suez Canal
 * What: Turkish troops attacking British common wealth forces in the Sinai. Summer of 1916, Friedrich Freinerr Kress von Kressentein began pushing Turkish troops across the senai with the goal of attacking the Suez Canal.
 * Results: Victory at Romania cost Murray 202 killed and 928 wounded. Turkish loss of people was severe with 1,350 killed with 3,950 captured. British forces had regained the start in the sinai. When the British advanced, they began moving across the Senai, building a railway and a water pipeline.
 * ==First Battle of Gaza==

When: March 26,1917 Where: Mediterranean coast in the southern region of Ottoman. What: Turkish forces from commanding positions from a seriers of ridges btw Gaza and Beersheba these formed the only pratical entry into palenstine.Dobel assembled the core of his force 8 km from gaza near the coast behind the Wadi Ghazi. Results: advancing under protection of dense fog.His cavalry succesufully cut off the rear of gaza east and south east on the morning of the attacks launch on march 26. > >
 * ==Second Battle of Gaza==
 * When: April 17,1917
 * Where: Southern Palenstine
 * What: Dobell chose to launch a frontal assault upon kressensteine force of 18000 by 3 british infantry divisions aided by eight heavy mark one tanks and 4000 gas shells unable to extract anything more than minor gains in spite of 2 to 1 manpower advantage.Chiefly on account of complex and effective Turkish defensive lines,Dobelll called off patently unsucessful attack on the 3rd day british casualties were heavy,6444 men with turkish losses under a third of that figure.
 * Results: British defeat Kressenstein favoured a counter attack against Murray but was over commander ruled by his more cautious.
 * ==Third Battle of Gaza==
 * When: October 31st-November 7 1917
 * Where: Southeren Palenstine
 * What: British forces under General Sir Archibald Murray began pushing across the Senai Peninsula with the goal of attacking the ottoman Empire in Palestine. Murray built rail lines and a freshwater pipeline across the dessert to support a base south of Gaza.
 * Results:In the fighting along the Gaza -beersheba line, British law a total of 18000 killed,wounded,missing.Turkish casualities number around 25000 held,wounded, and capture.

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> ==5 People: Sir Charles Macpherson Dobell (1869-1954)== > > (1870-1948) > He was a German General from Nuremberg. He was a member of the group of German officers who assisted in the direction of the Ottoman Army during world war 1. Kreß von Kressenstein was part of Otto Liman von Sanders military mission to Turkey. This German mission arrived in Turkey shortly before World War I broke out.
 * ==Fall of Jerusalem==
 * When:Nov.13,1917
 * Where:Judea Hills
 * What:Having reinforced his front line force Allenby assigned the task of capturing Jerusalem to XX Corps under fellow cavalry officer Sir Phillip Chetwode. He attack consequently began on 8 of December. The assault took two forms: a central thrust from Nebi- Samwell-a commanding series of heights some 13km to the west,and a secondary attack south at Bethlehem
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 * Results:In the event the city fell after a single day's fighting with morale in the Turkish opposition having plummeted in the face of continual British successes combined with the failure of Turkish counterattacks,Sporadic fighting nevertheless continued in the surrounding hills in the days following Jerusalem's fall
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 * He served in field command positions in Africa and palenstine during world war 1 and was responsible for the failure of the first of 2 attempts to capture Gaza in 1917.
 * ==Kress von Kressenstein:==