An important city in the southern desert of Palestine (now Israel). Its founding is recounted in the Bible, and it was the site of an important World War One battle between British and Ottoman forces. Laurie, who fights in this battle, quotes a passage from the Bible in which the prophet Elijah, a wanted man, takes refuge in Beersheba, but begs God for death when he arrives.
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Beersheba, Palestine Term Timeline in Black Diggers
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Act One
On the war’s eastern front, “the day before the attack of Beersheba” in Palestine, Laurie and a British Captain take turns quoting the Bible verses in which...
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