Hussein learned of the agreement when it was leaked by the new Russian government in December 1917, but was satisfied by two disingenuous telegrams from Sir Reginald Wingate, High Commissioner of Egypt, assuring him that the British government's commitments to the Arabs were still valid and that the Sykes-Picot Agreement was not a formal treaty.

After sightings of the bird at sea, a young Bermudian, David B. Wingate, theorised Cahows might still be nesting on rocky islets of Castle Harbour.

With plans provided by Wingate, the New York legislature funded the construction of a modern range at Creedmore, Long Island, for long-range shooting competitions.

Held at the Wingate Institute, Yom Sayarot is a day where prospective recruits undergo a series of physical and mental tests to evaluate their aptitude for service in several units.

( between 1975 and 1992 called " Leyton Wingate ") was founded in 1868, are in the Isthmian League Premier Division, and play at the Leyton Stadium in Lea Bridge Road.

Wingate is located at ( 40. 172864 ,-87. 073552 ).

Along with a younger brother, Wesley Coke Asbury Gause, Judge Wingate, and several others, they left Shallotte, North Carolina, on February 18, and arrived at Pearlington, Mississippi, on April 14, 1836.

Wingate is located at ( 34. 985021 ,-80. 447254 ).

He then joined the 5th Cavalry Regiment at Fort Wingate, New Mexico until October 24, 1907.

On August 13, 1990, Mayfield was paralyzed from the neck down after stage lighting equipment fell on him at an outdoor concert at Wingate Field in Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York.

It can be argued that the building of Peterlee was at the expense of such nearby colliery villages as Shotton Colliery, Wingate, Thornley and Wheatley Hill where development was deliberately suppressed by the local council in favour of the new town.

The A181 runs to the south west of the town at the Castle Eden and Wingate junction on the A19 leading to Wheatley Hill, Thornley, and Durham.

After four years Wingate left Charterhouse and in 1921 he was accepted into the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, the Royal Artillery's officers ' training school.

When it came time for Wingate to run the gauntlet, for allegedly having returned a horse to the stables too late, he walked to the senior student at the head of the gauntlet, stared at him and dared him to strike.

In 1923 Wingate received his gunnery officer's commission and was posted to the 5th Medium Brigade at Larkhill on Salisbury Plain.

In 1926, because of his prowess in riding, Wingate was posted to the Military School of Equitation where he excelled, much to the chagrin of the majority of the cavalry officers at the centre who found him insufferable ; he frequently challenged the instructors as a demonstration of his rebellious nature.

Wingate's father's " Cousin Rex ", Sir Reginald Wingate, a retired army general who had been governor-general of Sudan between 1899 and 1916 and high commissioner of Egypt from 1917 to 1919, had a considerable influence over Wingate's career at this time.

As a result Wingate successfully applied to take a course in Arabic at the School of Oriental Studies in London and passed out of the course, which lasted from October 1926 to March 1927, with a mark of 85 / 100.

Additionally, in James Michener's The Source, a reference is made to the " Orde Wingate Forest ", which is located in Israel at Mount Gilboa.

* John Wingate Thornton, Colonial Schemes of Popham and Gorges: Speech at the Fort Popham Celebration, August 29, 1862, 1863

On January 20, the Emperor, accompanied by Wingate, met Ethiopian soldiers on the border crossing from Sudan into Ethiopia at Um Idla.

Wingate and the emperor arrived at Belaya on February 6 and Haile Selassie established his headquarters there.

On Wingate's arrival at Belaya there followed a period of considerable tension between Wingate and Sandford because the latter assumed he was in overall command.

He left Wingate after a year to begin a career as a journalist, having worked for the next eleven years as a newspaper and radio reporter, first as a sportswriter and news reporter for the Raleigh News and Observer, and also as assistant city editor and city editor for The Raleigh Times.

The main ways historians note the failed Arab revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine went on to later affect the course of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war was by giving crucial British Mandate ( British Mandate of Palestine ) support to pre-state Zionist militias like the Haganah ( chiefly via training and support to them directed by British Army officer Orde Wingate ) and on the local Palestinian Arab side the revolt forced the fleeing into exile of the main local Palestinian Arab leader of the period, then Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini, who had to leave Mandatory Palestine after the revolt was crushed.

In 1938, after learning of the murder of his close friend and Jewish leader Haim Sturmann, Orde Wingate led his men on an offensive in the Arab section of Beit She ' an, the rebels ’ suspected base.

His father reached retirement from the army two years after Wingate was born.

Soon after Wingate arrived, Churchill decided to take him and his wife along to the Quebec Conference.

To commemorate Wingate's great assistance to the Zionist cause, Israel's National Centre for Physical Education and Sport, the Wingate Institute ( Machon Wingate ) was named after him.

Orde Wingate's son, Orde Jonathan Wingate, joined the Honourable Artillery Company after a regular Army career in the Royal Artillery and became the regiment's commanding officer and later regimental colonel.

Wingate named these soldiers as the Gideon Force, after the biblical figure of Gideon.

Shortly after his return, Wingate received an order from Cunningham to stop the pursuit of retreating Italians and help other British forces elsewhere.

Its administration was taken over by T. Wingate Todd after Hamann was named dean of Case Western's medical school.

Field Marshal Lord Slim wrote in his memoirs of the Burma War, Defeat into Victory, that after Wingate's death, at least three officers went to him, and told him, separately and confidentially, that Wingate had designated each of them as the Divisional Commander, in the event of his death.

Wingate had to leave his sick-bed ( he was suffering from an attack of malaria ) to dismiss the battalion's commander, after which it rallied to its new leader and performed well for the rest of the campaign.

According to Theophilus Parsons, " it was of great importance, that your Judge Wingate should form a correct opinion before he pronounces it — for after that, law, reason, and authority will be unavailing.

to Lieutenant Cairns was submitted to the late General Wingate after the usual evidence of three witnesses had been checked.

A street in Wingate, County Durham is named after him.

One of British General Orde Wingate ’ s units in the Dehra Dun area was visited by quartermaster logistics officers some months after they had last eaten K-rations.

Tsegaye later attended the prestigious British Council-supported General Wingate school – named after British officer Orde Wingate.

* 1862 The post was renamed Fort Wingate after the abandonment of an army post of that name located sixty miles away in San Rafael, New Mexico.

* 1907 Two troops of the 5th Cavalry went from Fort Wingate to the Four Corners area after some armed Navajo.

** August: Manuel Antonio Chaves of the New Mexico Volunteers orders his command to open fire on gathered Navajos after a dispute arose from allegations of cheating at a horse race between Navajos & New Mexican Volunteers forces at Fort Wingate.

The match was tied 1 – 1 after 90 minutes, but goals in extra time saw Wingate and Finchley 4 – 2 winners at the final whistle.