Person1888 – 1935

T. E. Lawrence

Also called: Lawrence of Arabia, Thomas Edward Lawrence

British archaeologist and intelligence officer who served as liaison to the Arab Revolt and became known as "Lawrence of Arabia"

Where they went

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1916 – 1918Arab Revoltparticipant
With British support, Sharif Hussein of Mecca rose against the Ottoman Empire; Arab forces took Aqaba and entered Damascus in 1918.

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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
Faisal I of Iraq1885 – 1933
Son of Hussein bin Ali and a commander of the Arab Revolt, briefly King of Syria (1920) and then King of Iraq (1921–1933)

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