Thutmose III's attack on Megiddo in 1479BCE had three possible routes to reach the city. His general suggested either the Northern or Southern route, as the central route that ran straight to Megiddo was too obvious and liable to an ambush. Thutmose decided that the central route was exactly what the Canaanites weren't expecting, and marched there in 12 hours unmolested and captured the city^1, as the Canaanites were on the Northern and Southern routes expecting the Egyptians to be there.

In September 1918, General Edmund Allenby read James Breasted's translation of Thutmoses' route, and decided to try the same route avoiding the Germans and Turks, and capturing Megiddo.

^1 Admittedly after a long siege, but he dallied along the route.

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