Battle of Samakh
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The Battle of Samakh was fought on 25 September 1918, during the Battle of Sharon which together with the Battle of Nablus formed the set piece Battle of Megiddo fought from 19 to 25 September 1918, in the last months of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of the First World War. During the cavalry phase of the Battle of Sharon the Desert Mounted Corps commanded by the Australian Lieutenant General Harry Chauvel, captured the Esdraelon Plain 40–50 miles (64–80 km) behind the front line in the Judean Hills on 20 September, when the 3rd Light Horse Brigade captured Jenin. The 4th Light Horse Brigade, Australian Mounted Division was deployed guarding supply columns, and prisoners, before being ordered to attack and capture Samakh on the shore of the Sea of Gallilee. Here the Ottoman and German garrison had been ordered by the commander of the Yildirim Army Group to fight to the last man.
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Location: 32.7049, 35.5876, KML, Cluster Map, Maps,
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| Type | Subtype | Date | Description | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| event | armed conflict | Battle of Mount Tabor | battle | Wikidata | |
| event | armed conflict | 92 | Battle of Gadara | battle, Hasmonean dynasty, Nabataean kingdom | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1177 | Battle of Djahy | battle, New Kingdom of Egypt, Sea Peoples | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 67 | Siege of Gabara | siege | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 67 | Siege of Japha | siege | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 67 | Siege of Gamala | siege | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 67 | Battle of Mount Tabor | battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 68 | Capture of Tarichaea | battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 634 | Battle of al-Yaqusah | Byzantine Empire, battle, Rashidun Caliphate | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 635 | Battle of Fahl | battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1113 | Battle of Al-Sannabra | battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1182 | Battle of Belvoir Castle | Kingdom of Jerusalem, battle, Ayyubid Sultanate | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1183 | Battle of Al-Fule | Kingdom of Jerusalem, battle, Ayyubid Sultanate | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1187 | Battle of Cresson | Knights Templar, Kingdom of Jerusalem, battle, Knights Hospitaller, Ayyubid Sultanate | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1187 | Siege of Tiberias | siege | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1187 | Battle of Hattin | Knights Templar, Kingdom of Jerusalem, battle, Principality of Antioch, County of Tripoli, Knights Hospitaller, Order of Saint Lazarus, Ayyubid Sultanate, order of Mountjoy | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1187 | Siege of Belvoir Castle | siege, Knights Hospitaller, Ayyubid Sultanate | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1217 | Siege of Mount Tabor | Knights Templar, Kingdom of Jerusalem, Teutonic Order, Knights Hospitaller, siege, Kingdom of Cyprus, Kingdom of Hungary, Duchy of Austria, Principality of Antioch, Ayyubid Sultanate | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1260 | Battle of Ain Jalut | Kingdom of Georgia, Ilkhanate, battle, Ayyubid dynasty, Mamluk Sultanate, Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1742 | Sieges of Tiberias | Ottoman Empire, siege, Al-Zayadina | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1799 | Battle of Mount Tabor | Ottoman Empire, battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1918 | Battle of Nazareth | Ottoman Empire, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1918 | Battle of Samakh | Ottoman Empire, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1948 | Unknown | battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1948 | Battle of Gesher | battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1948 | Battles of the Kinarot Valley | battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1966 | Rescue of the guard ship in the Sea of Galilee | battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1968 | list of projectile attacks from Lebanon on Israel and the Golan Heights | Palestine Liberation Organization, Hezbollah, armed conflict, aerial warfare, ethnic conflict, aspect of history | Wikidata |
| event | war | Ottoman Wars in the Near East | series of wars | Wikidata | |
| event | war | 400 | Armenian–Sasanian wars | Armenians, Sasanian Empire, series of wars | Wikidata |
| event | war | 440 | Byzantine–Sasanian War | war, Byzantine Empire, Sasanian Empire | Wikidata |
| event | war | 633 | Muslim conquest of the Levant | war, Byzantine Empire, conquest, Ghassanids, Rashidun Caliphate | Wikidata |
| event | war | 1189 | Third Crusade | religious war | Wikidata |
| event | war | 1271 | Ninth Crusade | religious war | Wikidata |
| event | war | 1973 | Yom Kippur War | Egypt, war, Israel, Syria | Wikidata |
| site | fort | DahEr el-Omar's Fort | fort | Wikidata | |
| commons | image | AwmP00225.005GermanHqrsSamakh | Commons | ||
| commons | image | A Fallen Aeroplane at Semakh Art.IWMART1590 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | AwmB00283.Samakh | Commons | ||
| commons | image | AWMP01474.009SamakhPrisoners | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Falls Map 37 Battle of Samakh 25 September 1918 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Falls Map 37 Battle of Samakh 25 September 1918 | Commons | ||




