Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "The Battle of Ayun Kara (14 November 1917), was an engagement in the Sinai and Palestine Campaign during the First World War. The battle was fought between the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade and a similar sized rearguard from the Turkish 3rd Infantry Division.Following their success in the battles of Beersheba, Gaza, and Mughar Ridge, the Egyptian Expeditionary Force was pursuing the retreating Turkish forces north. The New Zealanders, part of the ANZAC Mounted Division, were on the divisions' left heading towards Rishon LeZion, when nine miles (14 km) south of Jaffa they encountered the Turkish rearguard. Consisting of around 1,500 infantry, supported by machine-guns and artillery on the edge of sand dunes to the west of the villages of Surafend el Harab and Ayun Kara.The battle started in the afternoon with The New Zealanders caught in the open. Surviving Turkish artillery, machine-gun fire and infantry assaults, they gradually fought their way forward. The New Zealanders won the battle, for the cost of forty-four dead and eighty-one wounded. The Turkish casualties were 182 dead and an unknown number of wounded, but it was their last attemptto secure their lines of communications. By that night the Turks were in full retreat and soon after Jerusalem was occupied by the Egyptian Expeditionary Force."@en }
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- Battle_of_Ayun_Kara abstract "The Battle of Ayun Kara (14 November 1917), was an engagement in the Sinai and Palestine Campaign during the First World War. The battle was fought between the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade and a similar sized rearguard from the Turkish 3rd Infantry Division.Following their success in the battles of Beersheba, Gaza, and Mughar Ridge, the Egyptian Expeditionary Force was pursuing the retreating Turkish forces north. The New Zealanders, part of the ANZAC Mounted Division, were on the divisions' left heading towards Rishon LeZion, when nine miles (14 km) south of Jaffa they encountered the Turkish rearguard. Consisting of around 1,500 infantry, supported by machine-guns and artillery on the edge of sand dunes to the west of the villages of Surafend el Harab and Ayun Kara.The battle started in the afternoon with The New Zealanders caught in the open. Surviving Turkish artillery, machine-gun fire and infantry assaults, they gradually fought their way forward. The New Zealanders won the battle, for the cost of forty-four dead and eighty-one wounded. The Turkish casualties were 182 dead and an unknown number of wounded, but it was their last attemptto secure their lines of communications. By that night the Turks were in full retreat and soon after Jerusalem was occupied by the Egyptian Expeditionary Force.".