It will be recalled that the military leaders of the Turkish forces withdrew thousands of them from the Palestine front and sent them t3 the Caucasus to join the Tartars in their military operations against the Russian Armenians. After the Turkish order for the. extermination of the Arnenians had been executed. many who escaped joined the English and French military forces in Palestine and Syria and contributed materially to the victory which was won by General Allenby. Thousands of American Armenians. and Arnienians who were not naturalized but who were living in America. volunteered prior to and after the United States entered the war. and fought with the American and French and British forces on many battle fields of Europe. In 1916 M. Briand. who was president of the Council of Ministers In France. proposed to organize a legion. to be known as the Legion of the Orient.
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