Gather The Armenian Legionnaires: Sacrifice And Betrayal In World War I Presented By Susan Paul Pattie Accessible In Document

fascinating history about freedomloving Armenian fighters who sacrificed their dearest thingtheir lives in order to help their relatives who were persecuted by the Ottoman authorities in Cilicia region consists of today's Turkey's Adana, Hatay, Mersin and Osmaniye provinces.

What's interesting that the vast majority of Legionnaires were either survivors of the Armenian genocide who were living in Port Said camp Egypt or those who immigrated to US or Europe due to discrimination and hardship in the Ottoman empire when they heard the call of duty, they arrived to end the genocidal yoke and to rebuild their homeland on the fundamentals of human dignity and societal peace.
Following the devastation resulting from what has come to be known as the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey in, the survivors of the massacres were dispersed across the Middle East, North America and Western Europe.
Not content with watching World War I silently from the sidelines, a large number of Armenian

volunteers joined the French Foreign Legion, They were trained in Cyprus and fought extensively in Palestine and Cilicia alongside General Allenby, eventually playing a crucial role in defeating German and Ottoman forces in Palestine at the Battle of Arara in September.


The Armenian Legionnaires signed up on the understanding that they would be fighting in Syria and Turkey, and, should the Allies be successful, they would be part of an occupying army in their old homelands, laying the foundation for an independent Armenia.


Susan Pattie describes the motivations and dreams of the Armenian Legionnaires and their ultimate betrayal as the French and the British shifted their priorities, leaving their ancestral homelands to the emerging Republic of Turkey.
Complete with eyewitness accounts, letters and photographs, this book provides an insight into relations between the Great Powers through the lens of a small, powerless people caught in a war that was not their own, but which had already destroyed their known world.
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