My chiefs were astonished at such favourable news, but promised help, and meanwhile sent me back, much against my will, into Arabia. - T.E. Lawrence

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My chiefs were astonished at such favourable news, but promised help, and meanwhile sent me back, much against my will, into Arabia.

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Thomas Edward Lawrence [T. E. Lawrence] (16 August 1888 – 19 May 1935) was a British archaeologist, army officer, diplomat, and writer known for his role in the Arab Revolt and the Sinai and Palestine Campaign against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Commonly referred to as Lawrence of Arabia, he adopted T. E. Shaw as a pseudonym.

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