“You will recall that when Ludendorff was making his last drive toward Paris the Allies were hard pressed on the Western Front, and had to call on Allenby for many of his divisions. This made it necessary for Allenby to completely re-organise his army, and he made it up to a great extent of untrained divisions from India, and we see the Indians coming over the brow of this hill behind these cavalryman from the British Isles. The Indians fought with fanatical zeal, and played a very vital part in freeing northern Palestine and Syria, The Indians drove the Turks from Mt. Carmel, and captured the ancient city of Akaem which was Napoleon's Waterloo in the East. Then they freed Tyre and Sidon — the Dublin and Belfast of the world in the days of King Solomon."
-Lowell Thomas
“With Lawrence in Arabia” (1919)
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