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| rdfs:comment | - The Charge at Huj (8 November 1917), (also known by the British as the Affair of Huj), was an engagement between forces of the British Empire and the Ottoman Empire during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of the First World War. The charge is claimed to be one of the last British cavalry charges and was immortalised in a watercolour painting by the noted British artist Lady Butler.
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| Partof | - the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I
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| Caption | - Charge at Huj, by Lady Butler
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| abstract | - The Charge at Huj (8 November 1917), (also known by the British as the Affair of Huj), was an engagement between forces of the British Empire and the Ottoman Empire during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of the First World War. The charge was carried out by units of the 5th Mounted Brigade, against a rearguard position of German, Austrian and Ottoman artillery and infantry armed with machine guns. The charge was successful and the British captured the position, seventy prisoners, eleven pieces of artillery and four machine guns. However British casualties were heavy; of the 170 men taking part, twenty-six were killed and forty wounded. They also had 100 horses killed. The charge is claimed to be one of the last British cavalry charges and was immortalised in a watercolour painting by the noted British artist Lady Butler.
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