Monday, April 30, 2018

Just in case you thougth that surely, with the German offensive still in full swing, all military effort was focused in France. . .

on this day in 1918, British Empire forces commenced the Second Transjordan attack on Shunet Nimrin and Es Salt in an effort to take control of the Jordan Valley.

Ottoman prisoners of war caught as part of this operation.

While the operation, which lasted several days, met with some initial success, Ottoman and German counterattacks would render it a tactical defeat with the captured ground being yielded.

Australian Light Horse following the retreat.

At least casualties were light, unless of course you were one of them.

And in the former domain of Imperial Russia, the Taurida Soviet Socialist Republic in Crimea came to an abrupt end when Ukraine invaded it with German backing.  A person would think the Germans too distracted to undertake something like that, but then as it was a Ukrainian enterprise and they were there already, perhaps not.

The territory today is officially part of the Ukraine but is occupied by Russia.

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