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For the motion picture, see Lawrence of Arabia (film).

Thomas Edward Lawrence [T. E. Lawrence] (16 August1888 – 19 May1935) was a British archaeologist, army officer, diplomat, and writer known for his role in the Arab Revolt and the Sinai and Palestine Campaign against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War.

Commonly referred to as Lawrence of Arabia, he adopted T. E. Shaw as a pseudonym.

Quotes

• The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor. They have been tricked into it by a steady withholding of information.
  Men who dream

  The Baghdad communiques are belated, insincere, incomplete. Things have been far worse than we have been told, our administration more bloody and inefficient than the public knows. It is a disgrace to our imperial record, and may soon be too inflamed for any ordinary cure.

  We are today not far from a disaster.