Background
An independent Kingdom of Syria was proclaimed in Damascus after an Arab army, which included British colonel T. E. Lawrence, defeated the Ottoman forces in Syria and captured Damascus. However, as a result of negotiations between the western powers at the San Remo conference, and the Sykes-Picot Agreement between Britain and France, the French had set up the republic on the remnants of a former Ottoman Christian-majority autonomous province. In a dispute over French authority, the Hashemite king and Arab sheikhs decided to lead an open revolt against the French.
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