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... military campaigns against the Ot- tomans . An Arab military force occupied Damascus in September 1918 , and Faysal was declared king of Syria in accord with his un- derstanding that Arab support for British military ambitions would be ...
... military campaigns against the Ot- tomans . An Arab military force occupied Damascus in September 1918 , and Faysal was declared king of Syria in accord with his un- derstanding that Arab support for British military ambitions would be ...
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... military power on the Continent . The son of the elector Frederick III , later Frederick I , king of Prussia , Frederick Wil- liam grew up at a glamorous court , but his own temperament was ascetic , and he disap- proved of the court's ...
... military power on the Continent . The son of the elector Frederick III , later Frederick I , king of Prussia , Frederick Wil- liam grew up at a glamorous court , but his own temperament was ascetic , and he disap- proved of the court's ...
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... military theoretician , and war historian who became one of the fathers of modern armoured warfare . He influenced 20th - century armoured strategy , especially that of Germany and of the Soviet Union on the eve of World War II ...
... military theoretician , and war historian who became one of the fathers of modern armoured warfare . He influenced 20th - century armoured strategy , especially that of Germany and of the Soviet Union on the eve of World War II ...
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