Top graphic - capture of Damascus
Bottom graphic - entering Damascus
The influencing of the influencing media. Even one of our own major newspapers, The Daily Telegraph [Sydney], October 1, '1997 (below) insults our ancestors by ignoring historical documents, and faithfully follows the sham / Hollywood version of history. The text reads:
1918 British officer T.E. Lawrence -
dubbed Lawrence of Arabia - and
the Arab forces of Emir Faisal capture the
Palestinian city of Damascus from the Turks."
Victor...Lawrence of Arabia
Yet the same newspaper (above left), The Daily Telegraph of October 4, 1918, before the Lawrence sham, correctly records historical fact. The text reads:
Australian mounted troops entered Damascus
on the night of September 30. At 6 o'clock in the morming the city was
occupied...
Too bad they don't use their own archives!
In fact, the advance guard of the 10th Australian Light Horse, commanded by Major Olden (right) entered Damascus well before Lawrence and took the surrender.
Above is an historic photo of the surrender, at the Town Hall at 6:30am October 1, '1918.
Lawrence didn't arrive in Damascus until 9:00 am. And he was captured in a photo showing that he was riding in a Rolls Royce (right), befitting the expensive Arab costume of a Sharif that he was wearing.
Chauvel heard (probably from Lawrence's boasting) that it cost some £250. Lawrence had the whole thing planned to arrive earlier, but was delayed by an Indian patrol, who didn’t know who he was.
(According to Richard Aldington, the ostracized dissenting biographer of Lawrence L'Imposteur ('1955), after the War, Lawrence sold the golden jewelled dagger to pay for refurbishing of his country cottage.)
In fact, the commander of the most successful cavalry in modern history, Gen. Harry Chauvel (and to the chagrin of many, an Australian, from the Northern River country of NSW) followed shortly after the advance guard of Major Olden, took control of the city, and fittingly led the victory parade the next day (below).
However, in Lawrence’s book, he implies that, he not only entered Damascus first, but majestically on horse-back (see middle-right – Lawrence is at centre-top) and controlled the city.
In fact, the commander of the most succesful cavalry in modern history, Gen Harry Chauvel (and to the chagrin of many, an Australian, from the Northern River counrtry of NSW) followed shortly after the advance guard of Major Olden, took control of the city, and fittingly led the victory parade the next day (below).
Go to:
Pt. 3 (above)
Top graphic - capture of Damascus
Bottom graphic - entering Damascus
Others
The Maps
Lowell Thomas - the mythmaker
L'Imposteur cf. Legitimate
Death of a Billjim
Billjim Liberators
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