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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: Captains of Deal Castle, Castellans of Krakow, Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, John French, 1st Earl of Ypres, Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading, William Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood, Lord George Hamilton, John Townshend, 1st Earl Sydney, William Wellesley-Pole, 3rd Earl of Mornington, Francis Osborne, 5th Duke of Leeds, Silius Titus, Castellans of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, John Norris, Nathaniel Rich, Jakub Sobieski, Jan Klemens Branicki, Stanis aw Poniatowski, William Batten, George North, 3rd Earl of Guilford, Hieronim Augustyn Lubomirski, Thomas Rainsborough, Robert Smith, 1st Baron Carrington, Stanis aw Jan Jab onowski, Jan Tarnowski, Jozef Potocki, John Berry, Adam Miko aj Sieniawski, Dymitr Jerzy Wi niowiecki, Antoni Barnaba Jab onowski, Janusz Ostrogski, Krzysztof Szyd owiecki, Richard Meade, 3rd Earl of Clanwilliam, Miko aj Firlej, Norman Tailyour, Antoni Lubomirski, Andrzej Potocki, Argbadh, Ian Harrison, Andrea Venier. Excerpt: Field Marshal Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby GCB, GCMG, GCVO (23 April 1861-14 May 1936) was a British soldier and administrator most famous for his role during the First World War, in which he led the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in the conquest of Palestine and Syria in 1917 and 1918. Allenby, nicknamed the "Bloody Bull," was characterized by Archibald Wavell, a British field marshal during the Second World War who had served under Allenby, as an intelligent, caring man and a consummate professional soldier. T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia"), whose efforts with the Arab Revolt were greatly aided by Allenby, thought similarly of him: "(He was) physically large and confident, and morally so great that the comprehension of our littleness came slow to him." Allenby was arguably one of the most successful British commanders of the war, utilis...
