Person1862 – 1949
Henry McMahon
British diplomat and colonial official who, as High Commissioner in Egypt (1915–1916), corresponded with Hussein of Mecca
Where they went
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During the First World War Britain promised Sharif Hussein of Mecca that it would support Arab independence after the war if he rose against the Ottoman Empire.
People who appear alongside
- Hussein bin Ali1854 – 1931
Sharif of Mecca who, after his correspondence with Britain, launched the Arab Revolt in 1916 and became King of the Hejaz
Themes this person appears in
- National Movements in Asia and Africa1915 – 1948
From the Hussein–McMahon correspondence to the founding of Israel — three decades in which India, West Asia, Southeast Asia and Africa, swept up in the tide of self-determination after the First World War, pressed toward independence and modernization