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Postcard No. 152 “Reading Sir General Edmund Allenby's Proclamation at Jerusalem”, an Official British Photograph, Cairo, 1917. Allenby read the proclamation from the steps of the Tower of David on December 11, 1917, in Arabic, Hebrew, English, French, Italian, Greek, and Russian. The proclamation was worded exactly as it had been wired to him, with the addition of a short paragraph that indicated that several holy places would be put under Muslim guard. The proclamation came after the British took control of Jerusalem from the Ottoman Empire, ending 400 years of Ottoman rule. The British victory was a huge blow to the Ottoman Empire, which had already lost Mecca and Baghdad.
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