“In the last six weeks of this great drive Allenby's cavalry advanced over 500 miles — farther than from Paris to Berlin! They had captured over one hundred thousand Turks, and 500 cannon! The great world war on the Western Front was of such vital importance to all of us that it overshadowed what was going on out in the Near East, but I believe that historians of the future will agree that this Palestine Campaign was one of the most beautifully executed of all the campaigns of history, and that Field Marshal Lord Allenby, the man who led this last Crusade which freed the Holy Land, will go down in history as one of the greatest cavalry leaders the world has ever known.”
-Lowell Thomas
“With Lawrence in Arabia” (1919)
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