His army now bolstered by reinforcements, Allenby…

His army now bolstered by reinforcements, Allenby strikes in the west on September 19, 1918, with a numerical superiority of ten to one, having by ruse and diversion induced the Turks to reduce their strength here.

In this Battle of Megiddo, a British infantry attack sweeps the astonished defenders aside and opens the way for the cavalry, which rides thirty miles north up the coastal corridor before swinging inland to cut the Turks' northward lines of retreat.