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A wadi is an irrigation canal found in Arab countries.
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The Battle of Tel Asur was a British victory over the Turks in March 1918 during the Great War. Having secured his right flank by gaining posession of Jericho and the heights overlooking the Jordan, on March the 9th 1918 General Allenby attacked the high ground from the Jordan west to Mount Ephraim. On the esat, London troops crossed the Wadi el Auja, and despite strong opposition occupied Abu Yellul and Beiyudat, while holding the Auja ford of the Jordan.
The main assault was on the Shechem road, with the 53rd Division and other troops engaged in pressing forward each side. At the center of the battle was hill of Tel Asur, which was stormed by troops from the Middlesex Regiment, only to be counter-attacked as they neared the top, but drove back the attack.
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The Mareth Line was a German defensive line in North Africa during the Second World War running from the sea close to Mareth to the Matmata Hills, about 50 km away; it followed the Wadi Zigzau, a dried river bed which made an excellent defence against tanks. The German field marshal Rommel retired to this line in March 1943, and British frontal attacks failed to dislodge him. He was finally manoeuvred out of the position by a force of New Zealand troops accompanied by the British 1st Armoured Division which made a wide flanking movement around the Matmata Hills. A hastily organized blocking operation by the 21st Panzer Division managed to hold off the threat for long enough to allow Rommel and the rest of his forces to retire from the line into Tunisia.
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Wadi Halfa is a town on the Nile in the extreme north of Sudan. The railway from Khartoum to Wadi Halfa was built to support Lord Kitchener's campaign of 1896 to 1898 to retake Sudan from the Mahdi.
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