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The Desert Mounted Corps
Richard Martin Peter Preston (1884–), 1921
Named on the page for Battle of Megiddo (1918).
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Passages that name the battle; the whole book is at Internet Archive.
19–25 September 1918
Battle of Megiddo (1918)
THE ENEMY COMMUNICATIONS 191
The coastal plain, consisting of rolling downland, is about ten miles wide at Arsuf. From this point northwards it gradually narrows, till it is shut off altogether at Haifa, where the Mount of Carmel, an offshoot from the main Judaean range, falls in steep cliffs to the sea. The only track over the Carmel Range into the Plain of Esdraelon that is possible for wheeled traffic is by the famous Musmus Pass, from Kerkur to Lejjun on the river Kishon, over which Thothmes m. led his army, ‘ horse behind horse and man behind man,’ to the great victory of Megiddo, in 1479 b.c.
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