Battle of Tel el Khuweilfe

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The Battle of Tel el Khuweilfe was a World War I engagement in the Sinai and Palestine Campaign in late 1917, where British Empire forces clashed with Ottoman troops in the rugged hills northeast of Beersheba as part of the wider push toward Jerusalem.

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instanceOf battle
military engagement
belligerent British Empire
German Empire advisers
Ottoman Empire
United Kingdom NERFINISHED
campaign Sinai and Palestine Campaign NERFINISHED
combatType combined infantry and mounted operations
land battle
commanderBelligerent1 Edmund Allenby NERFINISHED
Philip Chetwode NERFINISHED
commanderBelligerent2 Kress von Kressenstein NERFINISHED
conflict World War I
date 1917
followedBy British advance on Jerusalem
forcesInvolved Ottoman artillery units
Ottoman infantry formations
infantry units of the British Empire
mounted troops of the British Empire
front Palestine front NERFINISHED
historicalPeriod First World War NERFINISHED
location Ottoman Syria NERFINISHED
Tel el Khuweilfe NERFINISHED
northeast of Beersheba
southern Palestine NERFINISHED
militaryFront Sinai–Palestine front NERFINISHED
outcome Ottoman forces eventually withdrew from the area
partOf Sinai and Palestine Campaign NERFINISHED
Southern Palestine offensive NERFINISHED
precededBy earlier operations around Gaza
relatedEvent Battle of Beersheba NERFINISHED
Third Battle of Gaza NERFINISHED
result British tactical stalemate with strategic advantage
significance contributed to weakening Ottoman defensive line in southern Palestine
helped fix Ottoman forces away from Beersheba
strategicObjective assist British advance toward Jerusalem
support capture of Beersheba
threaten Ottoman positions defending Gaza
temporalContext late 1917
terrain rugged hills
water-scarce high ground
theatre Middle Eastern theatre of World War I NERFINISHED

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Battle of Beersheba (1917) followedBy Battle of Tel el Khuweilfe