"Charge, men! But try to avoid bloodshed! I mean kill
them . . . but don't hurt them! I mean nothing messy!
INTERNAL INJURIES ONLY! INTERNAL INJURIES ONLY!"
>>>Even before World War I (1914-18) the Bedouins of the adjacent desert areas attacked the railway, which challenged their control over the pilgrims' route to the holy places from the north. When the Arabs of the Hejaz revolted against Turkish rule in 1916, the track between Ma'an and Medina was put out of operation by Arab raids, largely inspired by T.E. Lawrence. After the war the operative sections of the track were taken over by the Syrian, Palestinian, and Transjordanian governments. The section of the railway running from Ma'an, Jordan, to Medina was heavily damaged and was abandoned after 1917. Plans to restore the line in the 1960s were not fulfilled. <<<
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"Charge, men! But try to avoid bloodshed! I mean kill
them . . . but don't hurt them! I mean nothing messy!
INTERNAL INJURIES ONLY! INTERNAL INJURIES ONLY!"