yeah so since Lawrence was unable to serve the military he was frantically searching for a position that would make use of the skills he had picked up in the Middle East and it wouldn't be anywhere on the Western Front in fact you could say he was quite Restless during this time because it wasn't until November when the Ottoman Empire joined the war on Germany side did he finally become useful Lawrence got the chance he'd been waiting for and was stationed in Cairo as a military intelligence officer so although Lawrence got the wait but so I sorry guys one's calling me hello you got that from my video right I mean okay Indy yeah I did learn that from ute lawrence video I just figured since you had a whole YouTube channel about the First World War I could use it for my research yeah yeah that well that'd be great cuz look I well we love what you're doing here and I'll tell you what I had no idea about that Waterloo movie you recently reviewed and I think I speak for all of us that we hate Mel Gibson type historical movies about as much as you do anyway I will make sure to send our fans over for you to learn more about the TE Lawrence movie yep thanks man guys you should also check out the Great War Channel they have some fantastic content there alright India I really need to continue with reviewing this monster of a movie yeah well I I imagine so okay cool take care and we'll see you run okay that was pretty cool glad you didn't mind me watching his stuff so where was I again oh yeah so although Lawrence got the opportunity he wanted as an arab expert he would spend the next two years mostly sitting behind a desk during this time Great Britain was failing miserably in its war against the Ottoman Empire especially with the Gallipoli campaign there was great concern that the victorious Turks would be free to deploy more of its troops to attack British interests in Egypt and especially the Suez Canal as luck would have it an Arab uprising had already begun and in NUMBER_TOKEN to delay any Turkish advance the British government approached Prince Emir Faisal the primary Arab leader at the time and offered support to their revolution the Arabs function would be to sabotage railways and harass Turkish fortifications throughout the Arabian Peninsula the Arabs agreed under one condition that after the war they would be given self-rule and create a single United Arab nation free from European imperial intervention the British agreed mostly because they didn't think the Arab uprising had any real chance of succeeding but at least in might distract the Turks for a little while you want my own opinion this holds get of operations aside sure the real Wars being fought against the Germans not the Turks and not here but on the Western Front in the trenches your bed whatever he calls itself would be a sideshow oversight initially the Arab revolt began rather successfully and had one a few victories but eventually it grounded to a halt when they were faced with Turkish artillery and aircraft something that the Arabs were too ill-equipped to handle the British government figured that it was only a matter of time before the Arab uprising would be crushed it was then that Lawrence was sent to Wadi Safra to meet Emir Faisal and appraised the situation I remember difficult The Situation's bloody awful the morale giver they had in him which I doubt the Turks knocked out of him in
START_SELFPROMO_TOKEN so although Lawrence got the wait but so I sorry guys one's calling me hello you got that from my video right I mean okay Indy yeah I did learn that from ute lawrence video I just figured since you had a whole YouTube channel about the First World War I could use it for my research yeah yeah that well that'd be great cuz look I well we love what you're doing here and I'll tell you what I had no idea about that Waterloo movie you recently reviewed and I think I speak for all of us that we hate Mel Gibson type historical movies about as much as you do anyway I will make sure to send our fans over for you to learn more about the TE Lawrence movie yep thanks man guys you should also check out the Great War Channel they have some fantastic content there alright India I really need to continue with reviewing this monster of a movie yeah well I I imagine so okay cool take care and we'll see you run okay that was pretty cool glad you didn't mind me watching his stuff so where was I again oh yeah so END_SELFPROMO_TOKEN