« previous next »
Pages: 1 2 [3]  All   Go Down

Author Topic: War and wonder  (Read 16656 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline goldshirt*9

  • Super Hero
  • *******
  • Posts: 7390
  • Gender: Male
  • Who yous looking ats
Re: War and wonder
« Reply #30 on: June 16, 2010, 09:23:53 AM »
mmmmmmmmmm not sure of the name but it rings a bell about the british giving away the land though  :-\
Logged

Offline smokester

  • Administrator
  • Q
  • *
  • Posts: 15943
  • Gender: Male
  • Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo!
Re: War and wonder
« Reply #31 on: June 17, 2010, 05:01:54 AM »

The area was actually 'won' whilst battling the Turks and was the precursor to the dissolution of the Ottoman empire (was that not a good thing?).  The land was then divvied up according to the mandate of the League of Nations and Britain was simply the administrator of it, however, the mandate was considered 'British' because of it. 
Logged
Don't put off until tomorrow, what you can put off until the day after.

There is an exception to every rule, apart from this one.

Offline AlienBC

  • Chief Sig Designer
  • Cro-Magnon
  • ****
  • Posts: 965
  • Gender: Male
  • VIA
Re: War and wonder
« Reply #32 on: September 10, 2010, 06:04:54 AM »
was it not the brits who put the oil on the fire in the first place?.....by orchestrating the revolt on the  Ottoman empire by promising the arabs the land that is now called Israel....... ???
Logged
Pages: 1 2 [3]  All   Go Up
« previous next »