T.E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") and Prince Feisal and the battle at Akaba in 1917. Akaba (or Aqaba) was a port on a gulf of the Red Sea, now part of Jordan.

The Turks in Akaba soon surrendered and the Arab army rode in and in Lawrence’s words “splashed into the sea” on July 6, 1917. With thousands of mouths to feed and no food, Lawrence realized that he had to move swiftly.

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“It was the capture of Akaba which first brought Lawrence out of the obscurity of the Arab Bureau, and in view of the extensive claims made by himself and his friends, certain questions arise which are worth discussing even if defiant conclusions are hard to reach.

“In March Lawrence met Auda abu Tayi, ‘the greatest fighting man in northern Arabia,’ whose support would be necessary for the advance on Akaba….In the spring of 1917, in the tents of the Bedouin leaders and in consultation with [Gilbert] Clayton, [Reginald] Wingate and other British officers in Egypt, the plan to take Akaba by land was developed….