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Charge at Huj

1917 in British-administered PalestineBattles of World War I involving Austria-HungaryBattles of World War I involving GermanyBattles of World War I involving the Ottoman EmpireBattles of World War I involving the United Kingdom
Battles of the Sinai and Palestine CampaignConflicts in 1917November 1917 events
Lady Butlers Charge at Huj
Lady Butlers Charge at Huj

The Charge at Huj (8 November 1917), (also known by the British as the Affair of Huj), was an engagement between forces of the British Empire' Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) and the Ottoman Turkish Empire's, Yildirim Army Group during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of the First World War. It took place during the Pursuit phase of the Southern Palestine Offensive which eventually captured Jerusalem a month later. The charge was carried out by units of the 5th Mounted Brigade, against a rearguard position of German, Austrian and Turkish artillery and infantry armed with machine guns. The charge was successful and the British captured the position, seventy prisoners, eleven pieces of artillery and four machine guns. However British casualties were heavy; of the 170 men taking part, twenty-six were killed and forty wounded. They also had 100 horses killed. The charge is claimed to be one of the last British cavalry charges and was immortalised in a watercolour painting by the noted British artist Lady Butler.

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