Battle of Gaza - Definition and Overview

Related Words: Adrianople, Aegospotami, Agincourt, Antietam, Anzio, Ardennes, Austerlitz, Ayacucho, Balaclava, Bannockburn, Blenheim, Boyne, Cannae, Caporetto, Chancellorsville, Crecy, Dunkirk, Flodden

Several battles have been fought near Gaza in Palestine:

The Battle of Gaza (312 BC) was fought between Ptolemy I of Egypt and Demetrius I of Macedon
The Battle of Raphia in 217 BC, also known as the Battle of Gaza, was fought between Ptolemy IV of Egypt and Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom.
There were three World War I battles fought at Gaza between British forces and those of Ottoman Turkey:
- The First Battle of Gaza (March 26 1917) was a Turkish victory
- The Second Battle of Gaza (April 19 1917) was a Turkish victory
- The Third Battle of Gaza (October 31–November 7 1917) was a British victory

This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. If an article link referred you here, you might want to go back and fix it to point directly to the intended page.

Copyright 2009 WordIQ.com - Privacy Policy :: Terms of Use :: Contact Us :: About Us
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the this Wikipedia article.