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Megiddo

Site of a fortress town in northern Israel, where Thutmose III defeated the Canaanites; the Old Testament figure Josiah was killed in battle in about 609 BC; and in World War I the British field marshal Allenby broke the Turkish front in 1918. It is identified with Armageddon.



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He discusses the strategic setting, the Battle of Megiddo, the campaign for the Lebanon coast, the Euphrates campaign, and the counterinsurgency campaign.
He was taken to Megiddo but submitted a request to spend his sentence at Al Naqab Desert prison where his nephew is, but the administration refused.
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