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The Battle of Megiddo [a] was fought between 19 and 25 September 1918, on the Plain of Sharon, in front of Tulkarm, Tabsor and Arara in the Judean Hills as well as on the Esdralon Plain at Nazareth, Afulah, Beisan, Jenin and Samakh.
The Battle of Megiddo (fought 15th century BC) was fought between Egyptian forces under the command of Pharaoh Thutmose III and a large rebellious coalition of Canaanite vassal states led by the king of Kadesh. [4] It is the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail. [5]
Tel Megiddo (from Hebrew: תל מגידו) is the site of the ancient city of Megiddo (Greek: Μεγιδδώ), the remains of which form a tell or archaeological mound, situated in northern Israel at the western edge of the Jezreel Valley about 30 kilometres (19 mi) southeast of Haifa near the depopulated Palestinian town of Lajjun and subsequently Kibbutz Megiddo.
This Battle of Megiddo is recorded as having taken place in 609 BC, when Pharaoh Necho II of Egypt led his army to Carchemish (northern Syria) to join with his allies, the fading Neo-Assyrian Empire, against the surging Neo-Babylonian Empire. This required passing through territory controlled by the Kingdom of Judah.
There is a surviving detailed account of the earliest battle for the Jezreel Valley, the 15th-century BC Battle of Megiddo, to prove that it was fought in the valley. Due to the surrounding terrain, Egyptian chariots were only able to travel from Egypt as far as the Jezreel Valley and the valley north of Lake Huleh .
Map of the Near East in 1450 BCE. The 1450s BC was a decade lasting from January 1, 1459, BC to December 31, 1450, BC. Millennium; ... Battle of Megiddo ...
Battle of Megiddo may refer to: Battle of Megiddo (15th century BC), between the Egyptians and the Canaanites; Battle of Megiddo (609 BC), between the Egyptians and the Judahites; Battle of Megiddo (1918), between the British Empire and the Ottoman Empire; Armageddon (הַר מְגִדּוֹ Hār Məgīddō), a prophesied catastrophic end-of ...
Yildirim Army Group carts and gun carriages destroyed by EEF aircraft on the Nablus-Beisan road. This is the order of battle for the Battle of Megiddo (1918), the concluding engagement of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of the First World War.