In the interior of the Banda Oriental, the fight against Spain was led from 1811 by José Gervasio Artigas, commander of the Blandengues, a mounted corps that the Spaniards had originally created to police the region.
The 7th Brigade of the 3rd (Lahore) Division was detached to the Desert Mounted Corps to garrison the areas occupied by the mounted corps.
He deactivated Eastern Force, establishing in its place two infantry and one mounted corps under his command: the XX, the XXI Corps and the Desert Mounted Corps (formerly the Desert Column).
The total strength of this cavalry group was now about 8,000 mounted warriors, an effective mounted corps for an offensive attack the next day.
The successful exploitation of the infantry attack on the coast by Desert Mounted Corps' cavalry's breakthrough depended on the mounted corps occupying the Esdraelon Plain (also known as the Jezreel Valley and the ancient Plain of Armageddon), 40 mile behind the Ottoman front line.
The XX Corps captured 419 prisoners while Desert Mounted Corps captured 1,528 Ottoman soldiers.
The Desert Mounted Corps found itself fighting outnumbered, with Turkish reinforcements closing in from all sides.
Chaytor's Force was detached from the Desert Mounted Corps for independent operations.
Their successful advance would give Desert Mounted Corps control of the Ottoman lines of communications.
On 20 September, the Desert Mounted Corps captured Afulah, Beisan and Jenin on the Esdrealon Plain.
The Desert Mounted Corps moved across the Golan Heights and captured Damascus on 1 October.
