The naval brigade occupied the town, the Egyptian troops fled, and the burning of the town, which had been feared, was averted.

Two days later, having been only involved in minor skirmishes, the brigade occupied Bari and Brindisi.

As dawn broke, the City of London brigade occupied Cheriton Wood.

By nightfall, four brigades of Union troops occupied the town, which they looted with a fury that had not been seen in the war up to that point.

The brigade occupied Point Pleasant on March 6, and the boats shelled their positions for the next three days.

Meanwhile, a second Austrian brigade occupied Sassello.

The brigade then occupied Vaalkranz and erected sangars and dug trenches.

Chermside's brigade occupied the same position on the east.

Tyler's brigade occupied the two block-houses and trenches the soldiers had dug with a few available tools near the bridges.

As a prelude, the Giv'ati brigade's first action took place on 4 May 1948 when the brigade occupied 'Aqir, south west of al-Ramle, population 2,480.