The Desert Mounted Corps An Account of the Cavalry Operations in Palestine and Syria 1917-1918
CHAPTER XXII
Oct. 5th to Oct. 31st
Decision to advance to Rayak and Beirût. Sickness in the Corps. Occupation of Homs and Tripoli. 5th Cavalry Division ordered to advance to Aleppo. A hunt by the armoured cars. A piece of bluff. Fall of Aleppo. The last of the Turkish army. The Armistice. Captures of the Desert Mounted Corps 282