-Col. Holden and many other valuable
lives being lost in this manner!
But the Turk had really no fight left in him; his was a beaten army! He
continued his retreat, and the 15th Brigade took up an outpost-line north
and north-west of the city.
FOOTNOTES:
[40] _Hama (population about 80,000) is the Ancient Hamath, see I Kings
xviii, 34, xix, 13._
OUR BRIGADE REACHES ALEPPO.
The 14th Brigade heard of the capture of Aleppo when they arrived within a
few miles of it after dark.
Reaching the southern outskirts of the town, they entered it by the road
leading past the prison up to the Clock Tower. Leaving this on the right,
they turned sharply to the left (past the present Officers' Club) almost up
to Divisional Headquarters (_then already established_), where they bore to
the right, down to the bridge under the railway, at the French railway
station. The bridge had been blown up and a truck which was hanging down,
completely blocked the roadway, causing considerable delay, as the whole
Brigade had to lead their horses in "single file" up the steep embankment,
across the railway lines, and down the other side, in order to regain the
road. Two and a half miles along the Alexandretta Road the Brigade turned
to the left off the road, east of Bileramum, and halted for the night, it
being then 23.
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