Thomas Edward Lawrence, called Lawrence of Arabia was born in 1888
             and died in a motorcycle accident in 1935. Thomas was born in
             Tremadoc, Wales , and attended the University of Oxford. In 1910 he
             went on a archaeological expedition to the ancient Hittite city of
             Carchemish (located in Turkey), and then went to Sinai, where he
             learned Arabic. He wrote of his experiences in The Wilderness of Zin
             When World War 1 began in 1914, he joined the British Military
             Intelligence Service in Cairo. He was then sent to Iraq where he led the
             Arabs in revolt against Turkish rule and unified their armed forces and
             led the against the Turks. In 1918 Lawrence and prince Faisal entered
             Damascus before the British army. Lawrence however was unsuccessful
             in his efforts to gain Arab independence.
             Lawrence was a very important person for the Arab revolution
             because he along with prince Faisal organized the Arab armed forces
             and beat off the Turks. Unfortunately after being discharged in 1935 he
             was killed in a motorcycle accident in Dorset. Some of his other books
             are Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1926), and Revolt in the desert (1927).
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