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For the islamic empire. therefore, arab nationals always -- ideally this would be this dream city for arab kingdom. >> a crucial port city, aqaba is the way to capture damascus. the church have artillery and machine guns. just going to be a replication of what the british have done anywhere else whi. lawrence comes up with this idea that the way to do it is to go in land, come over the mountains and take it from behind. >> in the may, 1917, the

Directed to the sea, in the opposite direction. >> quickly the turns realized there was no way out. so they surrendered. >> the battle of aqaba, provers the importance of the battle. they knew the land. these were tribabtribables. it would not have been successful had faisal had not been apart of it. >> a aqaba is the turning point. >> at this point, lawrence sees himself as no longer fighting for the british, hes fighting for the arabs. no one heard a word from him in over two months. he was ce...

He was at 90 pounds by the end of this trip. the focus is on the local tribes men to join the alliance and bring their forces into this army. >> he was telling us that we are fighting faisal. if that got them motivated, he would stop there. you could be the prince of this region. he gave you what you desire in order to get what he desired which is an organized army against the turks. beginning of july, 1917, it is 2000 strong, theyre going to storm down to aqaba. >> all the ottoman defenses were

Everyone presume dead. lawrence realized he had to deliver the news about the fallen aqaba. communications were often quite primitive. if we have not gotten a telephone line, we are still de depending on physically moving in order to communicate communications. >> lawrence levaves aqaba to inform headquarters. >> by the time lawrence stumbles back, he finds a new leader in command of the british army. no-o please please no. ♪ i never needed anyone. ♪ front desk. yes, hello... im so... please...

>> all of a sudden lawrence comes with the news, i have taken aqaba. i have won this incredible victory. >> more importantly when he gets to cairo, a new british commander in chief taken over. allen bee. he was not a typical british general at the time. he didnt come from a family of generals. >> he commanded great loyalty because of his integrity and courage. >> he had a tremendous vision and the stthe statand the stat