Episode 2 - Australia's Battle of Beersheba

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ส.ค. 2023
  • As dusk fell on the 31st of October 1917, the 4th Light Horse Brigade - bayonets in hand - launched a horseback charge to seize control of the crucial town of Beersheba from the Ottoman Empire.
    This successful cavalry charge heralded the beginning of the end for Ottoman control of Palestine, and ensured the name of Beersheba would be forever remembered in Australian history because of its daring cavalry charge.
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ความคิดเห็น • 48

  • @Grandsmaitre
    @Grandsmaitre หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    You bloody beauties, aussies and kiwis.

  • @nathanroberts355
    @nathanroberts355 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    My great grandfather Thomas Joseph canny was a lighthorseman at Beersheba in the first world war and he got victoria cross and medal of gallantry

  • @philipsmith7913
    @philipsmith7913 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Excellent, brief history of the battle also crediting infantry and artillery contributions in what was a battle won by the mounted infantry charge

    • @The_ZeroLine
      @The_ZeroLine หลายเดือนก่อน

      Poorly written comment. It could be interpreted as both a criticism or a compliment.

    • @philipsmith7913
      @philipsmith7913 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@The_ZeroLine Really. Your own thoughts or perhaps you have none, preferring to snipe. The successful result was a due to combined arms.

  • @h2energynow
    @h2energynow หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    As a modern day resident of Beer Sheva. Found it awesome.

  • @ragarse3
    @ragarse3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Wonderfully simple and clear video about aspects of ww1 campaigns often ignored - the acknowledgement of effective cooperation between the different nationals impressive

  • @Gough-jf9zf
    @Gough-jf9zf หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Capably presented with the right amount of detail. I've read about the Palestine campaign but it seems my texts under-represented the Kiwi Mounted Rifles contribution.

    • @jesusislukeskywalker4294
      @jesusislukeskywalker4294 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

      🙏 the kiwis were legendary

    • @Gough-jf9zf
      @Gough-jf9zf 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@jesusislukeskywalker4294 Doesn't surprise me. They get overshadowed by the Aussie story, it's very unfair.

  • @nathanroberts355
    @nathanroberts355 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    My great grandfather Thomas Joseph canny was a lighthorseman at Beersheba in the first world and he was on the famous charge of Beersheba 31st Oct 1917

    • @charlesayache6801
      @charlesayache6801 หลายเดือนก่อน

      A few years ago I took an english speaking group to Beersheva and I gave them a description of the battle and we had a memorial trupeting at the British war cemetery.

  • @Gough-jf9zf
    @Gough-jf9zf หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Sad reality for the Aussie diggers returning home- they weren't allowed to bring their mounts with them. Horses were barred from Australia for quarantine reasons. 11,000 horses went to England's Indian campaign, 2000 were shot.

    • @James-kv6kb
      @James-kv6kb หลายเดือนก่อน

      I thought it was because the government didn't want to pay to bring them back but I suppose quarantine would have made sense

    • @Gough-jf9zf
      @Gough-jf9zf หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@James-kv6kb I've read many a version of 'why', you could be right. The diggers grew very attached to their mounts and were incensed to hear the horses would not be returning. Quarantine could have been the most plausible excuse.
      It would have been a very expensive exercise, in a very young country already in debt due to the war.
      We had bugger all tax base then, federal income tax only being introduced in 1915.
      Not a lot of money for services.
      But the M.E. was full of infectious diseases, one outbreak would have devastated our livestock.

  • @kcharles8857
    @kcharles8857 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Commentary, maps, graphics, excellent.

    • @colinwycherley7109
      @colinwycherley7109 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      This was made in collaboration with Operations Room. If you like this you'll love it

  • @54032Zepol
    @54032Zepol 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Very cool video! Keep up the great content the maps where the best part

  • @furryfriendification
    @furryfriendification หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    200. Meters ! 100 meters oh shit ! 🐪

  • @charlesarmstrong5292
    @charlesarmstrong5292 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

    ANZAC spirit - never underestimate it. 👍

  • @justmyopinion628
    @justmyopinion628 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Love these fellows.

  • @louisfourie7756
    @louisfourie7756 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Johnathon Cahns' books is a good resd

  • @Rob-pc2ju
    @Rob-pc2ju หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    When Aussies and Kiwis were close...ANZAC

    • @James-kv6kb
      @James-kv6kb หลายเดือนก่อน

      I'm not sure what you mean ? we give them shit like you would a brother but nothing has changed .

  • @James-kv6kb
    @James-kv6kb หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Certainly a different version of the story from the movie . And of course the whole bloody war was started because the Americans sold military equipment to the Germans which not a lot of people know. Houdini was the one who taught the Germans how to fly

  • @aridabaginindabag9970
    @aridabaginindabag9970 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    beer sheba isn't known as beer saaba, its known as beer sheva, beer meaning well and sheva meaning seven for the seven wells that made the city famous in its ancient days. otherwise great video!

    • @Golden-dog88
      @Golden-dog88 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      im havn a beer right now its know as tooheys extra dry, not to be mistaken as tooheys new. same company from NSW Australia 2 different beers

    • @frednurk4342
      @frednurk4342 หลายเดือนก่อน

      How silly of them l thought everyone would have known that

    • @James-kv6kb
      @James-kv6kb หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Beersheba is the way I thought it was said and won so we get to decide lol

  • @kencarse3677
    @kencarse3677 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    My grandfather was there I remember him being gutted about their horses and how their Arab friends were treated after WW2

  • @fizzgigmalmy2567
    @fizzgigmalmy2567 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    It seems them oostralians have done it again

  • @louisfourie7756
    @louisfourie7756 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Mark there was no Israeli army at the time just saying

    • @paulchilds9137
      @paulchilds9137 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      There were few jews in Palestine in WW1 and for centuries before that. They all lived in Europe but especially in Poland and Russia, Ukraine.

    • @lanceMollenhauer-mf1xz
      @lanceMollenhauer-mf1xz 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I see rocks for my sling. Shalom shalom

  • @louisfourie7756
    @louisfourie7756 หลายเดือนก่อน

    On the 6th June 1867 the rebuild of Israel started in exact reverse of how israel terminated on 6 th June AD 70 although i am not sure of this date

  • @markconley5730
    @markconley5730 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    and not an israeli flag in sight !

    • @gracecollins8415
      @gracecollins8415 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      In 1917?

    • @anthonyeaton5153
      @anthonyeaton5153 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@gracecollins8415That’s the level of historical learning found on most Australian forums.

    • @josiahzabel8596
      @josiahzabel8596 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Not for another 31 years.

    • @Rob-pc2ju
      @Rob-pc2ju หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@anthonyeaton5153 I think he means to point out who did the spade work and heavy lifting to enable the creation later.

    • @lanceMollenhauer-mf1xz
      @lanceMollenhauer-mf1xz 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Oh I see rocks for my sling.

  • @hulusiakar3252
    @hulusiakar3252 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Now look at the state of Palestine! Thank you! Türkiye yüzyılı Cumhuriyet bayramı kutlu olsun! 🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷

    • @lanceMollenhauer-mf1xz
      @lanceMollenhauer-mf1xz 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Have your nation but not a empire 🇬🇧🇺🇲🇦🇺🇳🇿🇮🇪

    • @hulusiakar3252
      @hulusiakar3252 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@lanceMollenhauer-mf1xz It goes both ways 🫡

    • @lanceMollenhauer-mf1xz
      @lanceMollenhauer-mf1xz 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@hulusiakar3252 today's empires are ones and zeros we've moved on

    • @hulusiakar3252
      @hulusiakar3252 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@lanceMollenhauer-mf1xz So have we..

    • @lanceMollenhauer-mf1xz
      @lanceMollenhauer-mf1xz 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@hulusiakar3252 enjoy your stealth fighters