The main attack on Gaza would come from the south by the Desert Column's 53rd ( Welsh ) Division commanded by Major General Dallas, supported by one infantry brigade of Eastern Force's 54th ( East Anglian ) Division commanded by Major General Hare.

Gaza was now completely surrounded and following Desert Column's orders the 53rd ( Welsh ) Division, which had not been in action since Gallipoli, made a direct attack from the south and east towards Ali Muntar ; the 160th ( Welsh Border ) advancing towards Esh Sheluf was in position by 08: 30 and the 158th ( North Wales ) Brigade advancing towards Mansura, and the 159th ( Cheshire ) Brigade had crossed the wadi by 08: 25 but had to wait an hour before Dallas ordered them to Mansura to support the 158th.

The Desert Column, a force of approximately 1, 400 soldiers, started from Korti, Sudan on 30 December 1884 ; the Desert Column's mission, in a joint effort titled " The Gordon Relief Expedition ", was to march across the desert to the aid of General Charles George Gordon at Khartoum, Sudan, who was besieged there by Mahdist forces.

On 17 June 1940, the headquarters of the British 6th Infantry Division was designated as the Western Desert Force.

Pagan made his headquarters at al-Karak were he built a castle on a hill called by the crusaders Petra Deserti-The Stone of the Desert.

Both Chauvel and Chetwode had by 10: 00 established their divisional and Desert Column headquarters on Hill 310.

The Anzac Mounted Division headquarters were established at Beit Durdis and by 10: 10 communications were established with Desert Column, Imperial Mounted Division and the 2nd Light Horse Brigade by cable.

The Australian 11th Light Horse Regiment and the British 5th Mounted Brigade followed more slowly to the rear, and the British 7th Mounted Brigade, which was attached to the Desert Mounted Corps headquarters, also approached from the south.

Once the main offensive by XXI Corps and the Desert Mounted Corps was launched, XX Corps was to block the Ottoman escape route from Nablus to the Jordan crossing at Jisr ed Damieh and if possible capture the Ottoman Seventh Army's headquarters in Nablus.

According to Theosophy, once Sanat Kumara arrived here, he directed the construction of the city of Shamballa on the etheric plane above the Gobi Desert to serve as his headquarters.

On 17 June 1940, the troops Wilson had facing Libya under Major-General Richard O ' Connor and his 6th Infantry Division headquarters were redesignated Western Desert Force.

The village of Wadi Rum itself consists of several hundred Bedouin inhabitants with their goat-hair tents and concrete houses and also their four wheel vehicles, one school for boys and one for girls, a few shops, and the headquarters of the Desert Patrol.

Now the Desert Studies Center headquarters.

In this engagement, Emperor Wu broke the normal pattern of reaction against Xiongnu attacks by making a major excursion against Xiongnu's headquarters in the north of the Gobi Desert.

13 games were announced for the system's launch, including Ms. Pac-Man, Pole Position II, Centipede, Joust, Dig Dug, Desert Falcon, Robotron: 2084, Galaga, Xevious, Food Fight, Ballblazer, Rescue on Fractalus !, and Track and Field.

These statements were later collected into the book of Sayings of the Desert Fathers.

In the late 19th century, hostilities broke out between the Shona inhabitants of Botswana and Ndebele tribes who were migrating into the territory from the Kalahari Desert.

Later, various sultanates claimed present-day CAR, using the entire Oubangui region as a source of slave, from which slaves were traded north across the Sahara Desert.

Both the Tomahawk and the AGM-86 were used extensively during Operation Desert Storm.

A series of coordinated attacks by these Egyptian Expeditionary Force infantry and mounted troops were also successful at the Battle of Mughar Ridge, during which the British infantry divisions and the Desert Mounted Corps drove two Ottoman armies back to the Jaffa — Jerusalem line.

Although the U. S. Air Force sent fighters such as the F-16 to theater in Desert Shield, they had to carry bombs with them as no stores were in place for sustained operations whereas the carriers arrived on scene with full magazines and had support ships to allow them to conduct strikes indefinitely.

There were many Nevada Desert Experience protests and peace camps at the Nevada Test Site during the 1980s and 1990s.

The Allied Desert Air Force ( DAF ) was concentrating fiercely on his fragile and elongated supply routes while British mobile columns moving west and striking from the south were causing havoc in the Axis rear echelons.

Conditions were harsh as these goldfields were centered in the Great Victoria Desert and Hoover described the region as a land of " black flies, red dust, and white heat.

Moroccan troops were involved in Bosnia as well as in Somalia, during the operation Desert Storm.

Henning in 1943 ) were found with the discovery in the twentieth century of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the Judaean Desert and the Manichaean writings of the Uyghur Manichaean kingdom in Turpan.

In Operation Desert Shield during the buildup phase of the 1st Gulf War, the U. S. Army were concerned about the lack of mobility, protection and firepower offered by existing rapid deployment ( i. e. airborne ) formations ; and also about the slowness of deploying regular armored units.

There were many Nevada Desert Experience protests and peace camps at the Nevada Test Site during the 1980s and 1990s.

The earliest original writings in Coptic language were the letters by St. Anthony of Egypt, first of the “ Desert Fathers .” During the 3rd and 4th centuries many ecclesiastics and monks wrote in Coptic, among them, St. Pachomius, whose monastic rule ( the first cenobitic rule, for solitary monks gathered in communities ) survives only in Coptic.

His remains were buried at Desert Memorial Park in Cathedral City, California.

In 1980 he directed Lion of the Desert, in which Quinn and Irene Papas were joined by Oliver Reed, Rod Steiger, and John Gielgud.

One hundred forty thousand Guardsmen were mobilized during the Korean War and over 63, 000 for Operation Desert Storm.

During Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm the HET vehicles were employed primarily to haul M1 Abrams tanks.

During Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, 51 Sheridans were deployed by the 82nd Airborne Division, and were among the first tanks to be sent.

In 1967, the Queensland Government established the Simpson Desert National Park.

The Third Army was stationed at Fort Benning, Georgia, until the unit, along with its commander was ordered to the newly established Desert Training Center in the Colorado Desert of California and Arizona, by the Chief of the Armored Force, Major General Jacob L. Devers.

The Chihuahuan Desert Research Institute arboretum was established in 1974.

The Desert Hot Springs Police Department was established in 1997 after residents complained to the Riverside County Sheriff's Department about being underserved by a part-time deputy from the Palm Desert regional station.

Following that, however, Paramount cast him as the lead in Heritage of the Desert ( 1932 ), his first significant starring role and also the one that established him as a Western hero.

Air Headquarters Western Desert — as the tactical component of Tedder's original tri-force — contributed significantly not only to the organization of the Northwest African Air Forces established in February 1943, but also to the structuring of the Mediterranean Allied Air Forces ( MAAF ) in December 1943, the Allied Expeditionary Air Forces ( AEAF ) of the Normandy Campaign, and even some air forces of today.

Although the station is essentially a rebranding of Radio 7, its content has been brought further in line with its sister station, BBC Radio 4, and new additions to its schedule include extended versions of established Radio 4 programmes such as The Now Show, The News Quiz and Desert Island Discs.

The preserve was established October 31, 1994 with the passage of the California Desert Protection Act by the US Congress.

Pimería Alta was the site of the Spanish missions in the Sonoran Desert established by the Jesuit missionary Eusebio Kino in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

In the 1950s the Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation established a large manufacturing facility in the Sandy Desert section in northeastern Montville where Olin, and later the United Nuclear Corporation, produced nuclear reactor fuel components.

The Desert Development Center was established in 1979 by AUC as a center for applied research and training to promote sustainable development in Egypt's reclaimed desert areas.

The park's present boundaries were established in 1978 by the merging of the Namib Desert Park, the Naukluft Mountain Zebra Park and parts of Diamond Area 1 and some other bits of surrounding government land.

In 1939 Hasluck established Freshwater Bay Press, through which he released his first book, Into the Desert.

The Lake Eyre National Park, Strzelecki Regional Reserve, Witjira National Park, Sturt National Park and Simpson Desert National Park are among a number of protected areas established within the Lake Eyre Basin.

In the then-fertile Gobi Desert, another group of exiled Hyperboreans established a fantastic civilization.

In 1990-91, he was part of the Saudi team that established the Joint Information Bureau at Dhahran, a city in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province, during Operation Desert Shield / Desert Storm.

Citizens for a Free Kuwait ( CFK ) was an astroturf operation established by the Kuwaiti government to persuade the US public to look favourably on US military action in the Persian Gulf ( the subsequent Operation Desert Storm ).

This dirt road leads to Soda Springs, the site of the health resort established by Curtis Springer in the late 1940s and now the Desert Study Center maintained by California State University.