What was Thomas Edward Lawrence known for?

Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence CB DSO (16 August 1888 – 19 May 1935) was a British archaeologist, army officer, diplomat, and writer, who became renowned for his role in the Arab Revolt (1916–1918) and the Sinai and Palestine Campaign (1915–1918) against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War.

What was the Lawrence’s goal?

Lawrence’s overriding aim was to help the Arabs achieve military success that would lead to post-war self-government. In June 1917, the Arab forces won their first major victory, seizing Aqaba, a strategically important Red Sea port. Success continued as they gradually made their way north.

What is T.E. Lawrence’s full name?

Thomas Edward Lawrence
Thomas Edward Lawrence was born in Tremadoc, Caernarvon in north Wales in 1888. Before the outbreak of the First World War he worked as an archaeologist and photographer in the Middle East.

What did Lawrence promise the Arabs?

Lawrence and the Arab army were fighting against the Turks who had taken the side of the Germans in the first world war. Lawrence, with backing from the British government, had promised the Arabs their own autonomous state on collapse of the Ottoman empire.

What did T.E. Lawrence eat?

Lawrence was a staunch vegetarian. In France in 1906 he was pleased to see one morning that “nothing had to be killed to feed us”, though he was warned by his French host family that “vegetarians fill an early grave” and was pressured to eat meat.

Why did Lawrence go to Aqaba?

Background. Gilbert Clayton had already told Lawrence, “The move to Aqaba on the part of Feisal is not at present desirable…” This was due to the McMahon-Hussein Correspondence being superseded by the Sykes-Picot Agreement. Lawrence, however, decided to go his own way, without orders.

Did T.E. Lawrence save a man from the desert?

Since retaliation by the Howeitat would shatter the fragile alliance, Lawrence declares that he will execute the murderer himself. Lawrence is then stunned to discover that the culprit is Gasim, the man for whom he risked his own life to save in the desert, but Lawrence shoots him anyway.