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Edmund
Allenby was born in 1861. After an education at Haileybury
and Sandhurst he joined the Inniskilling
Dragoons. He served in South Africa (1884-88) and fought in the Boer
War (1889-1901).
At the beginning of the First World War Allenby
was put in charge of the Cavalry Division of the British
Expeditionary Force. After taking part in the first Battle
of Ypres, Allenby was promoted to commander of the Third Army. Allenby
disagreed with Sir Douglas Haig about the
tactics used at the Battle of Arras and as
a result he was transferred to the Palestine
Front.
In Palestine Edmund Allenby made efficient use of his mechanized forces
and it has been claimed that his methods were similar to the blitzkrieg
tactics used by Nazi Germany during
the Second World War.
By
December, 1917 Allenby had captured Beersheba, Gaza and Jerusalem. The
following year he defeated General Otto Liman
von Sanders and the Turkish-German Army in Palestine. He followed
this with victory over the Egyptians at Megiddo, which enabled him to
take Damascus in October, 1918.
Promoted to Field Marshal, Allenby was High Commissioner in Egypt between
1919 and 1925. Sir Edmund Allenby died in 1936.
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