For the duration of the revolt, Lawrence best contributed to it through his use of strategy against the Ottomans and as a liaison with the British armed forces. He visited and interviewed Hussein's three sons and concluded that Faisal would be the best choice to lead the revolt. Lawrence was sent to the Hejaz on October 16, 1916, on an intelligence gathering mission led by Ronald Storris. Unable to overcome a possible alliance between Hussein and the Ottomans due to the difficulties of the Gallipoli Campaign, Britain sent Lawrence to Mesopotamia in the spring of 1916 to assist in relieving the Siege of Kut by helping the Bedouins to start an Arab uprising and bribing Ottoman officials. Either they give immediate commitment or Hussein would support the Ottomans. The situation peaked in October 1915 where Sharif Hussein gave the British an ultimatum. Negotiations stalled, however, as France and India did not want the Arab states to become independent. The British were very tempted to accept this offer as it would have been helpful in redirecting the Ottomans from the British oil reserves in the Middle East.
In exchange, he wanted a guarantee from the British of an independent Arab state.
Sharif Hussein bin Ali, Emir of Mecca was in negotiations with the British to lead an Arab uprising against the Ottomans. In 1915 an Arab-nationalist movement erupted within the Arabic-speaking Ottoman territories. He also supervised the encoding and decoding of telegrams sent between Athens, Gallipoli, Petrograd, and Cairo. His job was to conduct surveys of the Palestinian countryside and to collect maps for the war in the Middle East. With the start of World War I, Lawrence commissioned into the British Army and was posted to the intelligence staff in Cairo in December 1914 due to his extensive knowledge of Arabic. This was a done to improve mapping of the area to give the British an advantage over the Ottoman Empire in the event of war. It was here where Lawrence helped conduct a survey of the Negev Desert. He was sent to Palestine by the British Foreign Office in January 1914 where he studied the customs and the culture of the Near East. Lawrence was born to Thomas Chapman and Sarah Lawrence on August 16, 1888, in Tremadog, Caernarvonshire, Wales.
0 kommentar(er)
