. A story of the war and family war service record, 1914-1919. A Story of the War Ninth Crusade Wins Jerusalem. General Maude had hardly taken Bagdad whenhe died of cholera, as the result of partaking offood and drink with the Arabs in celebration ofthe victory over the Turks, in order not to offendthem by discourtesy. Sir Edmund Allenby was given command inJune, 1917, of a British, French, Indian and Egypt-ian expedition which attacked the Turks in posses-sion of the Holy Land. Through mountain anddesert the Allied Army pushed forward, taking suchhistoric cities as Gaza, Beersheba, Hebron, Be
. A story of the war and family war service record, 1914-1919. A Story of the War Ninth Crusade Wins Jerusalem. General Maude had hardly taken Bagdad whenhe died of cholera, as the result of partaking offood and drink with the Arabs in celebration ofthe victory over the Turks, in order not to offendthem by discourtesy. Sir Edmund Allenby was given command inJune, 1917, of a British, French, Indian and Egypt-ian expedition which attacked the Turks in posses-sion of the Holy Land. Through mountain anddesert the Allied Army pushed forward, taking suchhistoric cities as Gaza, Beersheba, Hebron, Bethle-hem and Joppa, made memorable in Holy Writ, andretaking Jerusalem from the infidel shortly beforeChristmas, 1917. For more than 500 years the landof the Bible and the birthplace of Christendom hadbeen in uninterrupted possession of the Turks. Thename of the ninth crusade was bestowed upon thisexpedition, in allusion to the eight previous attemptsto take from the Mohammedan the holy places ofChristian and Jew alike. Heat again caused a suspension of acti
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