Lawrence of Arabia
Title: Lawrence of Arabia
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Lawrence of Arabia
Thomas Edward Lawrence, called Lawrence of Arabia was born in 1888
and died in a motorcycle accident in 1935. Thomas was born in
Tremadoc, Wales , and attended the University of Oxford. In 1910 he
went on a archaeological expedition to the ancient Hittite city of
Carchemish (located in Turkey), and then went to Sinai, where he
learned Arabic. He wrote of his experiences in The Wilderness of Zin
(1915).
When World War 1 began in 1914, he joined the British Military
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showed last 75 words of 194 total…prince Faisal entered
Damascus before the British army. Lawrence however was unsuccessful
in his efforts to gain Arab independence.
Lawrence was a very important person for the Arab revolution
because he along with prince Faisal organized the Arab armed forces
and beat off the Turks. Unfortunately after being discharged in 1935 he
was killed in a motorcycle accident in Dorset. Some of his other books
are Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1926), and Revolt in the desert (1927).
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