Excerpt from The Desert Mounted Corps: An Account of the Cavalry Operations, in Palestine and Syria, 1917-1918 This History commences with the re-organisa tion of the British Tr00ps in the Egyptian theatre of the War, on Sir Edmund Allenby taking over command in June 1917. The tr00ps operating East of the Suez Canal had hitherto been known as the Eastern Force, ' which had been successively com manded by Sir Herbert Lawrence, Sir Charles Dobell and Sir Philip Chetwode, who were again directly under the orders of the commander-in-chief in Cairo. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.