Battle of Lake Huleh (1771)

In the Battle of Lake Huleh on 2 September 1771, the rebel forces of Daher al-Umar and Nasif al-Nassar routed the army of Uthman Pasha al-Kurji, the Ottoman governor of Damascus, at Lake Huleh in the eastern Galilee. Most of Uthman Pasha's 10,000-40,000 strong army drowned in the Jordan River as they attempted to flee Daher's forces commanded by his son Ali al-Daher. According to historian William Harris, the battle has been "mythologized in local historiography and poetry". Nonetheless, no official account of the battle by the Ottomans was recorded.