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  • Battle of Romani
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Strength
  • 14000(xsd:integer)
  • 16000(xsd:integer)
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Partof
  • the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I
Date
  • --08-05
Commander
  • Archibald Murray
  • Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein
  • Henry Chauvel
  • Henry Lawrence
Align
  • right
Caption
  • 8(xsd:integer)
Width
  • 25.0
Casualties
  • 1130(xsd:integer)
  • 9200(xsd:integer)
Result
  • British Empire victory
combatant
  • * * *
Place
  • East of the Suez Canal and north of Ismailia
  • Sinai peninsula, Egypt
Source
  • --08-13
  • C. Guy Powles
  • General Chauvel
Conflict
  • Battle of Romani
Quote
  • The Battle of Romani, which might have been called the second battle of Pelusium ... consisted of the great Turkish attack and our counter stroke.
  • ... their pluck, dash and endurance is beyond all description. I don't mean only the Australians and New Zealanders but the Horse Artillery Territorials as well ... we have fought and won a great battle and my men put up a performance which is beyond all precedent, although worn out with watching and harassing an advancing enemy day and night for a fortnight ... The fighting in the early morning of the 4th was the weirdest thing I ever took on. It was over rolling sand dunes and the enemy who were in thousands, on foot, could see our horses before we could see them in the half light and it was awfully difficult to find cover for them ... Our losses have been heavy, of course, but absolutely nothing in comparison with what has been achieved.
  • The battle should either have been Murray's or, if it had to be Lawrence's, he should have placed all the troops available for it at Lawrence's disposal, the moment the enemy arrived in strength at Oghratina.
Units
  • 2(xsd:integer)
  • 3(xsd:integer)
  • 52(xsd:integer)
  • Anzac Mounted Division's 1st Light Horse Brigade
  • Machine gun battalion
  • Ottoman camels
  • Pasha I
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