Battle of Romani

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The Battle of Romani was the last ground attack of the Central Powers on the Suez Canal at the beginning of the Sinai and Palestine campaign during the First World War.

The battle was fought between the 3rd and 5th August 1916 near the Egyptian town of Romani and the site of ancient Pelusium on the Sinai Peninsula, 37km east of the Suez Canal. This victory by the 52nd (Lowland) Division and the Anzac Mounted Division of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) over a joint Ottoman and German force, which had marched across the Sinai, marked the end of the Defence of the Suez Canal campaign.

The Battle of Romani was the first large‑scale mounted and infantry victory by the British Empire in the First World War. It occurred at a time when the Allied nations had experienced nothing but defeat, in France, at Salonika and at the capitulation of Kut in Mesopotamia. The battle has been widely acknowledged as a strategic victory and a turning point in the campaign to restore Egypt’s territorial integrity and security, and marked the end of the land campaign against the Suez Canal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Romani