In 1917, T.E. Lawrence conducted an extensive reconnaissance journey north to Damascus and Baalbek before the campaign against Aqaba

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In November 1917, British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour authored a letter to Lord Walter Rothschild endorsing the establishment of a Jewish national home in Palestine

Arab conspirators in Greater Syria centered in Damascus were uncovered and mostly executed before the Arab Revolt began

The Arab Bureau originally proposed an Allied amphibious landing at Alexandretta in northern Syria rather than at Gallipoli

T.E. Lawrence told Prince Faisal not to rely on British promises and advised the Arab forces to secure their own independence by force

During a 10-day journey in the Hejaz, T.E. Lawrence met Sharif Hussein and his four sons: Ali, Abdullah, Faisal, and Zeid

T.E. Lawrence disclosed the secret terms of the Sykes-Picot Agreement to Prince Faisal on the Arabian coast

T.E. Lawrence traveled to the Red Sea with British officer Ronald Storrs to find ways to revitalize the Arab Revolt

General Edmund Allenby took command in Cairo following two disastrous frontal assaults at Gaza overseen by his predecessor

In October 1917, T.E. Lawrence told British Member of Parliament George Lloyd that he was no longer fighting for the British government, but for the Arabs

General Edmund Allenby assumed command of British forces in Egypt only weeks before T.E. Lawrence returned from capturing Aqaba in 1917

The Arab Revolt began four months before T.E. Lawrence arrived in the Arabian Peninsula

The Gallipoli campaign occurred on a mountainous, three-mile-wide peninsula heavily fortified with Ottoman trenches

T.E. Lawrence planned an overland assault against Aqaba from behind the port to bypass Ottoman coastal artillery oriented toward the sea

T.E. Lawrence served as the British liaison officer controlling the disbursement of British funds and supplies to Arab tribal forces

T.E. Lawrence accidentally shot his own camel in the head during the charge at the Battle of Aba al-Lisan outside Aqaba

T.E. Lawrence traveled upcountry in the Arabian Peninsula to meet Prince Faisal and selected Prince Faisal as the ideal leader for the Arab Revolt

T.E. Lawrence recruited Bedouin tribes to the Arab Revolt using promises of military plunder and financial gain

Planning and agreements between the British government and Sharif Hussein took place months before T.E. Lawrence arrived in the Hejaz

T.E. Lawrence discovered the terms of the secret Sykes-Picot Agreement early on while serving as a British intelligence officer in Cairo

T.E. Lawrence arrived at General Edmund Allenby's headquarters in Cairo barefoot and dressed in ragged Arab robes to report the capture of Aqaba