The British maintain two hundred and fifty…

The British maintain two hundred and fifty thousand troops in Egypt even after the evacuation from Gallipoli.

A major source of worry to the British is the danger of a Turkish threat from Palestine across the Sinai Desert to the Suez Canal.

That danger wanes, however, when Hussein's initially unpromising revolt is developed by the personal enterprise of British military strategist colonel T. E. Lawrence into a revolt infecting the whole Arabian hinterland of Palestine and Syria and threatening to sever the Turks' vital Hejaz railway.