Guns and pontoons are now at rest in the Museum at Cairo.
Just what took place in the attack is known to very few.

The English have not seen fit to make public the details, and there was little to be got from the demoralized soldiers who returned to Beersheba.

Piece by piece, however, I gathered that the attacking party had come up to the Canal at dawn.

Finding everything quiet, they set about getting across, and had even launched a pontoon, when the British, who were lying in wait, opened a terrific fire from the farther bank, backed by armored locomotives and aeroplanes.

"It was as if the gates of Jehannum were opened and its fires turned loose upon us," one soldier told me.
The Turks succeeded in getting their guns into action for a very short while.