Baha'u'llah & the New Era by -J. Esslemont- 2 Para

..on the 23rd day of September, 1918, at 3 P.M., after some twenty-four hours' fighting, the city was taken by British and Indian cavalry, and the horrors of war conditions under the Turkish rule came to an end.. (63:3)

..So profoundly impressed were the Government representatives by His noble character and His great work in the interests of peace conciliation, and the true prosperity of the people, that a knighthood of the British Empire was conferred on 'Abdul-Baha, the ceremony taking place in the garden of the Military Governor of Haifa on the 27th day of April, 1920. (63:4)

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