World War I: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Romani" id="mwARM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Battle of Romani">Battle of Romani</a>: Allied forces, under the command of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_Murray" id="mwARQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Archibald Murray">Archibald Murray</a>, defeat an attacking <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" id="mwARU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ottoman Empire">Ottoman army</a> under the command of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Freiherr_Kress_von_Kressenstein" id="mwARY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein">Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein</a>, securing the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Canal" id="mwARc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Suez Canal">Suez Canal</a> and beginning the Ottoman retreat from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinai_Peninsula" id="mwARg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Sinai Peninsula">Sinai Peninsula</a>.