SCIENCE, INNOVATION & CARTOGRAPHY
MAPS, TELEGRAPHS & MEGIDDO
Late Ottoman war and administration increasingly relied on maps, railways, telegraph networks and reconnaissance. Control of information could decide the fate of whole armies. On this day in 1918, the second day of Megiddo deepened the Ottoman collapse as Allied cavalry cut communications and seized key routes. The campaign showed that in the modern age, losing the wires and the roads could mean losing the battle itself.
TELEGRAPH & RAIL:
Communication and transport became decisive tools of modern imperial strategy.
TODAY IN HISTORY – 1918:
As Megiddo intensified, Ottoman communications broke down and retreat routes were severed, accelerating the destruction of the Palestine front.
MAPS, TELEGRAPHS & MEGIDDO
