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The Battle of Aleppo was fought on 25 October 1918, when Prince Feisal's Sherifial Forces captured the city during the Pursuit to Haritan from Damascus, in the last days of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign in the First World War.
Aleppo c 1918 dominated by the citadel The ancient city of Aleppo, which had been incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1516 with a population by the beginning of the First World War of 150,000, is 200 miles (320 km) north of Damascus and a few miles south of the strategically important railway junction of the Palestine and the Mesopotamian ...
The Battle of Aleppo may refer to: Battle of Aleppo (1918), during World War I; Battle of Aleppo (2012–2016), during the Syrian Civil War;
The Charge at Haritan occurred on 26 October 1918 at the end of the Pursuit to Haritan during the final stages of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of the First World War.Two regiments of the 15th (Imperial Service) Cavalry Brigade, 5th Cavalry Division, charged into the retreating remnant column of the Ottoman Army's Yildirim Army Group.
Damascus and Aleppo were captured during the subsequent pursuit, before the Ottoman Empire agreed to the Armistice of Mudros on 30 October 1918, ending the Sinai and Palestine campaign. The British Mandate of Palestine (1920-1948) and the Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon were created to administer the captured territories.
Battles involving the Hamdanid emirate of Aleppo (1 C, 3 P) S. Sieges of Aleppo (8 P) ... 1947 anti-Jewish riots in Aleppo; Battle of Aleppo (1918) B. Bakjur; C.
Battle of Abu Tellul; Capture of Afulah and Beisan; Battle of Aleppo (1918) First Battle of the Jordan; First Battle of Amman; Second Battle of Amman; Battle of Arara; Action of Arsuf; Battle of Ayun Kara
During this pursuit, he commanded T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia"), whose campaign with Faisal's Arab Sherifial Forces assisted the EEF's capture of Ottoman Empire territory and fought the Battle of Aleppo, five days before the Armistice of Mudros ended the campaign on 30 October 1918.