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Following the devastation resulting from the Armenian Genocide in
the Ottoman Empire beginning in 1915, the survivors of the
massacres were dispersed across the Middle East, Europe and North
and South America. Not content with watching World War I silently
from the sidelines, a large number of Armenian volunteers joined
the Legion d'Orient. They were trained in Cyprus and fought
courageously in Palestine and Cilicia alongside Allied commander
General Allenby, eventually playing a crucial role in defeating
German and Ottoman forces in Palestine at the Battle of Arara in
September 1918. 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 a
self-governing Armenian state. Susan Paul Pattie describes the
motivations and dreams of the Armenian Legionnaires and their
ultimate betrayal as the French and the British shifted priorities,
leaving their ancestral Armenian 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, vulnerable people
caught in a war that was not their own, but which had already
destroyed their known world.
"The design of this Memoir is, to present the incidents in the life
of a little colored boy". So begins the life story of James
Jackson, as set down by his African American teacher, Susan Paul,
in 1835, as an example to other children and adults who might learn
from the boy's goodness. This remarkable document -- the first
African American biography and a work which predates Harriet
Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by almost thirty
years -- is a lost treasure from the annals of African American
history. With its combination of eyewitness accounts, personal
testimony, and excerpts from traditional Sunday school texts, the
Memoir is an extraordinary social history rooted in both
nineteenth-century evangelicalism and the experiences of free
African Americans. Susan Paul's portrayal of James Jackson's
Christian sensibility, his idealism, and his racial awareness
emphasizes his humanity and exemplary American character over his
racial identity, even as it embeds him in his African American
community.
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