 During these attacks on Ottoman rearguards they captured many prisoners and machine guns.As they were leaving Damascus by the Bab Tuma, the 10th Light Horse Regiment learned that rearguards held the Nahr Ma'raba about north east of Damascus.The leading squadron supported by the regiment attacked the German machine gunners who were eventually forced to abandon their position "when [the rearguard] ... saw that the attack was about to be pressed home" by a cavalry charge.