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The Battle of 73 Easting and the movement to contact south of the battle brought the regiment's covering force mission for VII Corps to its conclusion. During the operation the regiment covered the advance of three different U.S. divisions in turn, moved 120 miles in eighty-two hours and fought elements of five Iraqi Divisions. [ 42 ]
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Its forces participated in Operation Desert Shield, the Battle of Khafji, the Battle of 73 Easting, the Battle of Al Busayyah, the Battle of Phase Line Bullet, the Battle of Medina Ridge, Battle of Wadi al-Batin, and the Battle of Norfolk, among other engagements.
Battle of Wadi may refer to several battles that have taken place in a valley (Arabic, wadi): Battle of Wadi Haramia (167 BC), the first Hand to hand combat battle fought between the Maccabees and the Seleucid Empire; Battle of Wadi al-Khaznadar (1299), a Mongol victory over the Mamluks; Battle of Wadi (1916), a battle between the Allies and ...
The Battle of Wadi, occurring on 13 January 1916, [2] was an unsuccessful attempt by British forces fighting in Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq) during World War I to relieve beleaguered forces under Sir Charles Townshend then under siege by the Ottoman Sixth Army at Kut-al-Amara. [3] [4]
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The battle took place about 60 miles (97 km) east of and 18 hours after the Battle of Al Busayyah, and several kilometers east of the Battle of 73 Easting, which had ended just two hours earlier. The Battle of Norfolk is named for Objective Norfolk , an area that encompassed the intersection of the IPSA Pipeline Road and several desert trails ...