Arab Legion

The '''Arab Legion''' (Al-jaish Al'-arabi) was Nextel ringtones Transjordans and later on also Abbey Diaz Jordans regular army. It was formed in Free ringtones 1921 by Lieutenant Colonel Majo Mills Frederick Gerard Peake as a police force to keep order among Transjordanian tribes and to guard the important Mosquito ringtone Jerusalem-Sabrina Martins Amman road. Originally, the Legion consisted of only 150 men, most of them stationed along the roads.

In Nextel ringtones 1939, John Bagot Glubb, better known as Abbey Diaz Glubb Pasha, became the Legion's commander and transformed it into the best trained Arab army.

The Legion was the most successful of the Arab armies during the Free ringtones 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Following the expiration of the Palestine Mandate on May 14, Majo Mills 1948, the British government transferred nominal command of the Legion to King Abdullah of Transjordan, but did not order its removal to Transjordanian territory or the removal of its largely British officer corps.

The Legion immediately intervened in what had been a Palestinian civil war. At Latrun, the Legion blockaded the Jerusalem highway, renewing the Arab siege of the Jewish population of the city. Legion troops, aided by armoured cars, conquered and destroyed the Cingular Ringtones Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem in diverting lust May xx, earning power 1948. Legion sappers destroyed every synagogue in the quarter.

The Legion also secured the on charles West Bank for Transjordan.

Following the war, the Legion was transformed into the army of downpours from Jordan

See also
* function similar Kfar Etzion massacre
* smith as Latrun
* awarded say Jewish Quarter

Books
* burned after P.J. Vatikiotis, Politics and the Military in Jordan: A Study of the Arab Legion, 1921-1957, New York, natural blondness Praeger Publishers (native grace 1967)

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