Posted on 08/08/2017 5:32:42 AM PDT by wtd
Remembering the Indian Soldiers Who Helped Liberate Jerusalem 100 Years Ago
Indian Lancers guarding Turkish prisoners in Jerusalem in December 1917
Welcome Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and thank you for the sacrifices made by your country’s soldiers who saved the Jews of the Land of Israel 100 years ago and eventually led to the Jewish state’s creation.
An idyllic fenced park is located in the middle of the Talpiot neighborhood in Jerusalem, just a four-minute Waze-directed detour from Hebron Road. This cemetery, which I visited for the first time last week, is the burial site for 79 Indian soldiers who died here fighting for the liberation of Jerusalem in 1917. Another cemetery for the Indian soldiers is in Haifa.
More than one million Indian troops fought with the British Army in WWI, at the Western front in Europe, in Africa, Mesopotamia, and the Middle East. On the Sinai-Palestine front, 95,000 Indian combatants served; approximately 10 percent were killed. In the 1914-1918 period, they fought the Turkish-German armies at Gallipoli, the Suez Canal, through the Sinai and Palestine and finally Damascus, with crucial battles in Gaza, Jerusalem, Jaffa, Haifa, Nablus and Megiddo.
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General Allenby on his horse saluting the Indian troops outside of Jerusalem’s Jaffa Gate on December 11, 1917 (Library of Congress)
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The British actions against the Ottomans were textbook cases of what NOT to do -- they lost thousands in a silly battle for Gallipolli instead of attacking at Antioch (a chicken-neck allowing for support to Armenian and Arab revolts against the Turks
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They lost thousands of British Indian troops fighting in Iraq in battles that were poorly supplied and planned.
Guess where all of the known oil was back then...
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