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By Paul Harding, Discovery History

When we think of the Great War, we think about the mud and the trenches of the Western Front. In Worcestershire we may have heard about the famous…

800 Australian Cavalrymen Helped Secure British Victory Against the Ottoman Turks Edmund Allenby sought to break the stalemate in Palestine in 1917. It fell to the Australian cavalrymen to dislodge the Turks from Beersheba. Here's What You Need to Know: Only 31 troopers and 70 horses died during the charge, a testament to the surprise and speed of the maneuver. In late 1917, the most successful cavalry charge of World War I took place not on the muddy killing fields of the Western Front, but at the foot of the Judean Hills in southern Palestine. The sun had just begun to set over the desert t...