Battle of Al-Kafr: 23 of July 1925.

(Translated by Moutassem Abou-Hamdan).

Sultan Pasha Al-Attrache warned the French leader Captain Norman of the necessity of leaving the Druze Mountain (Jabal Al-Arab) and retreating with his army of 500 French officers and soldiers.  Instead, Norman sent to Sultan an arrogant response.

In the morning of the 21^st of July, the revolution army marched with their flags flying high along side of them were Bedouins from the nearby areas.  They amassed no more than 500 fighters.  Most of them had simple weapons like swords, daggers, and axes.  If any had guns they were old English guns, German short and long barrels, and an assortment of Ottoman types of guns.

Sultan Al-Attrache divided his men into two groups: the first were infantry with a mission to cross the rough roads through the grapevine fields so that it can circle around the enemy from the East.  The second was a cavalry that dashed climbing towards the enemy’s site to confront them from the West through a narrow 200 meters wide passage.

Within minutes the enemy was surrounded from all sides.  The revolution army annihilated the French army except for few soldiers that survived and managed to get back to Swieda castle with great difficulty.

Casualties within the Revolution army were 54 martyrs, among them was the first to die in that battle Moustafa Thoukan Al-Attrache, Sultan’s younger brother.