The Finest Feats of the War? The Captures of Baghdad and Jerusalem during the First World War and Public Opinion throughout the British Empire

Fantauzzo, Justin

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“…Opinion in Ireland was divided: the moderate nationalist Freeman's journal rejoiced in the liberation of the Holy Sepulchre from the Turks and remarkably suggested that this one act would go a long way to erasing England's crimes, whilst the Connaught Telegraph shuddered at the idea of the Holy City falling to the Protestant heirs of Cromwell. 38 The British control of the site did indeed cause some concern for the papacy. The capture of Jerusalem had been briefly marked by the ringing of church bells and Te Deums in Rome, perhaps a required gesture towards Italy's ally (notably St Peter's was an exception).…”

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Globalising and Localising the Great War

Gregory

2017

Trans. R. Hist. Soc.

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This article is intended to suggest an approach to the global history of the First World War that can provide a method of managing the potentially unwieldy concept of global conflict by understanding it through the war's impact on localities. By concentrating on four relatively small but significant cities; Oxford in England, Halifax in Nova Scotia, Jerusalem in Palestine and Verdun in eastern France, which experienced the war in very different ways, it looks at both the movement of people and things and the symbolic interconnectivities that made the war a ‘world war’. This local focus helps challenge both the primacy of self-contained national history and the focus on the violent interaction of the opposing sides which are the more normal ways of narrating the war. It does not deny the usefulness of these traditional structures of narration and explanation but suggests that there are different and complementary ways the war can be viewed, which create different emphasis and chronologies.

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Globalising and Localising the Great War

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2017

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The Other Wars

Fantauzzo¹

2019

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In the introduction to Major John Robertson's memoir of his service with the Imperial Camel Corps, With the Cameliers in Palestine (1938), Sir Harry Chauvel, the wartime commander of the Desert Mounted Corps, ruminated on the importance of Robertson's memoir. 'In New Zealand as in Australia', he explained, 'it is only natural that more interest has been shown in the Western theatre of the Great War than in the Eastern theatres as the great bulk of their soldiers served in the former. The Palestine campaign', he continued, 'is consequently little known in these countries'. 1 Curiously, he thought, the campaign was better known in the United States, especially amongst American cavalrymen who likened the EEF's northwards drive to Aleppo to Stonewall Jackson's campaign in the Shenandoah Valley during the American Civil War, than it was in Britain and the Dominions. The memory of the campaign was alive and well, though, Chauvel was happy to report, amongst the men of the 14th and 15th Australian Light Horse Regiments, who had adopted the motto Nomina Desertis Inscripsimus, 'In the Desert we have written our names'. 2 Chauvel had first pointed out the relative obscurity of the war in Sinai and Palestine seventeen years earlier, when he praised R. M. P. Preston's regimental history, The Desert Mounted Corps (1921), for bringing attention to a campaign 'but little known to the general public'. 3 He did so again in the foreword to Ion L. Idriess's The Desert Column (1932). 4 Yet little, it seemed to him on the eve of the Second World War, had changed. Chauvel wasn't exaggerating. Although the campaign in Sinai and Palestine and elsewhere had long been overshadowed by the war on the Western Front, much to the dismay of soldiers during the conflict, as we have seen in previous chapters, the situation had worsened in the interwar period. Twenty years after the start of the war, the 'popular definition of 1

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