Capture of Afulah and Beisan

Capture of Afulah and Beisan
Part of the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I
6,000 Ottoman prisoners at Beisan receiving rations on 24 September with commander of 16th Division seated on right wearing white arm bands
Date 20 September 1918 Location Afulah in the centre of the Esdraelon Plain (Jezreel Valley) and Beisan on its eastern edge near the Jordan River Result British Empire victory
Belligerents
British Empire Great Britain  British India Australia	Ottoman Empire  German Empire
Commanders and leaders
Edmund Allenby Harry Chauvel George Barrow	Fevsi Pasha Otto Liman von Sanders
Units involved
Egyptian Expeditionary Force Desert Mounted Corps 4th Cavalry Division	Yildirim Army Group's 13th Depot Regiment, military police with 12 machine guns Afulah and Beisan garrisons

 British Empire

The Capture of Afulah and Beisan occurred on 20 September 1918, during the Battle of Sharon which together with the Nablus, formed the set piece Battle of Megiddo fought during the last months of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of the First World War. During the cavalry phase of the Battle of Sharon, the 4th Cavalry Division of the Desert Mounted Corps attacked and captured the main communications hub at Afulah, located in the centre of the Esdraelon Plain (also known as the Jezreel Valley and the plain of Armageddon), and Beisan on the plain's eastern edge near the Jordan River, some 40–50 miles (64–80 km) behind the front line in the Judean Hills.

Infantry attacks by the British Empires XXI Corps had begun the Battle of Sharon on 19 September, along an almost continuous trench line from the Mediterranean across the Plain of Sharon and into the foothills of the Judean Hills. These attacks captured the Ottoman front line at Tulkarm, Tabsor, and Arara, in the process outflanking and decimating the Ottoman Eighth Army on the coast. During the attack on Tulkarm, the infantry created a gap in the Ottoman front line defences, through which cavalry from General Edmund Allenby's Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) rode north. The three cavalry divisions in the Desert Mounted Corps successfully captured the Ottoman Seventh and Eighth Armies' lines of communication across the Esdraelon Plain from their headquarters in the Judean Hills.

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