biography
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Glubb, Sir John Bagot
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known as Glubb Pasha
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1897–1986)
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| biography:
| British soldier, born in Preston, Lancashire, NW England, UK. He trained at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, served in World War 1, and became the first organizer of the native police force in the new state of Iraq (1920). In 1930 he was transferred to British-mandated Transjordan, organizing the Arab Legion's Desert Patrol, and became Legion Commandant (1939). He had immense prestige among the Bedouin, and the Arab Legion fought successfully in the war against Israel (1948–9). He was dismissed from his post in 1956 because of the rise of Arab nationalism. Knighted in 1956, he then became a writer and lecturer. |
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