The Israeli port city of Haifa has quietly rewritten its history. For decades, schoolchildren were taught that British troops liberated the city from Ottoman control in 1918. Now, those textbooks tell a different story: it was Indian soldiers, charging on horseback with lances and swords, who freed Haifa.

According to PTI, at a ceremony this week at the Indian cemetery in Haifa, Mayor Yona Yahav said the correction was long overdue.

“Constantly we were told this city was freed by the British, till the Historical Society showed us the research. In every school, we are now changing the texts, it wasn’t the British but the Indians who liberated us,” Yahav declared.

The battle that galloped into history

On September 23, 1918, as World War I neared its end, the 15th Imperial Service Cavalry

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