Complex sentence: At 04:00 on 23 March the Auckland Mounted Rifles Regiment began to cross the river at Makhadet Hajlah and two squadrons pushed Ottoman units back out of the country on the eastern bank as far north as Ghoraniyeh while one squadron was sent to the east.
Split into simpler sentences: At 04:00 on 23 March the Auckland Mounted Rifles Regiment began to cross the river at Makhadet Hajlah. Two squadrons pushed Ottoman units back out of the country on the eastern bank as far north as Ghoraniyeh while one squadron was sent to the east.