Battle of Arara
{'<entity_0>': '19 September 1918', '<entity_1>': 'Ottoman Empire', '<entity_2>': 'Battle of Arara', '<entity_3>': 'Palestine', '<entity_4>': 'Nablus'}
[['Battle of Arara', 'participant', 'Ottoman Empire'], ['Battle of Arara', 'point in time', '19 September 1918'], ['Battle of Arara', 'location', 'Palestine'], ['Battle of Arara', 'location', 'Nablus']]
The <entity_2> took place on <entity_0> during the Battle of Sharon, which along with the Battle of <entity_4> formed the set piece Battle of Megiddo fought between <entity_0> and 25 September in the last months of the Sinai and <entity_3> Campaign of the First World War. During the <entity_2> the Yildirim Army Group of the German and <entity_1> was attacked by the 54th (East Anglian) Division and the Détachement Français de <entity_3> et de Syrie (DFPS) which included the French Armenian Legion also known as La Légion Arménienne (XXI Corps). In <entity_0>, on the Palestinian front, the <entity_1> army was crumbling before the British expeditionary forces in the Middle East, which contained an Armenian contingent commanded by a French colonel and French officers, as well as Armenian officers. A very strong <entity_1> counter-attack north of this wadi became critical until units in the Détachement Français de <entity_3> et de Syrie (DFPS) appeared on Scurry Hill and opened fire on the <entity_1> attackers who were forced to surrender.
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