May 1917 News Today

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>> in may 1917, the decision to take aqaba is taken by faisal and lawrence without any reference back to the british military authorities in cairo. he goes off everybodys radar and sets off with a commando force on a 600-mile march and disappears into the desert. days and days and days of waterless desert with the possibility that the camels will begin to die before they get to the opposite side. and of course if the camels die, then everybody else dies. >> nothing to relieve the eye. men go mad...

Therefore nationalists always dreamt that ideally damascus would be this kind of dream city that could be the capital for the arab kingdom. >> now the eastern end of the sinai peninsula is this narrow straits that leads to this town of akaba. >> a crucial port city, akaba is the gateway to capturing damascus. >> but the problem with akaba is youll never get off the beach because the turks have artillery and machine guns all pointed out to see. its just going to be a replication of what the briti...

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