T.E. Lawrence

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T.E. Lawrence

T.E. Lawrence

T.E. Lawrence was a British archeological scholar, adventurist, military strategist and was the writer of “ The Seven Pillars of Wisdom”. T.E. Lawrence was born in 1888, and lived till 1935. Many people over the years have attempted to discredit his accomplishments, but his legend has remained very strong.

T.E. Lawrence was better known as “ The Lawrence of Arabia”. He achieved this name by the astonishing role he played in helping the Arabs against the Turks in World War One. By the age of 31, Lawrence was an international celebrity. Sadly his life came to an abrupt stop when he fatally crashed his motorcycle in 1935 at the age of 46.

T.E. Lawrence became an extremely influential figure in the Arab forces. In particular his Guerrilla warfare proved successful in undermining Germany’s ottoman ally. Lawrence was injured several times during his campaigns. He suffered many bullet and shrapnel wounds.

In 1917 Lawrence took the port of Akaba and led his Arab forces to the dessert, distracting the Turks when the British army began its invasion of Palestine and Syria. Lawrence acquired the knowledge of the language and the customs of the Arab people. Soon after the outbreak of WW1, Lawrence was assigned to intelligence as an Arabian expert. in 1916, Lawrence joined forces with Arabian Sheik Feisal al Husayn. In "Seven Pillars", (a book written by Lawrence", he describes his first meeting with Feisal." I felt at first glance that this was the man I came to Arabia to seek- The leader who would bring the full arab revolt to a full glory. Feisal looked very tall and pillar like, very slender, in his long white silk robe and his brown head cloth… His eyelids were dropped; and his black beard and colorless face were like a mask against the strange, still watchfulness of his body…
In 1916, Lawrence was captured and subjected to beatings and homosexual rape by the Turkish Governor of Daraa. Though he escaped, he was shattered by the experience.
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