Percy Cox
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Major-General Sir Percy Zachariah Cox, was a British Indian Army officer and Colonial Office administrator in the Middle East. He is considered one of the main architects behind the current Middle Eas
Cox in 1916
Cox and Gertrude Bell with Abdul Aziz Ibn Sa'ud, during the Arab Revolt, Basrah, 1916
Coronation of Faisal as King of Iraq. Faisal seated, to his right are British High commissioner Percy Cox and Lieutenant Kinahan Cornwallis, to his left commander-in-chief of all British troops in the Mesopotamia Commander General Aylmer Haldane.
Gertrude Bell
Ibn Saud
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Abdulaziz bin Abdul Rahman Al Saud, known in the Western world as Ibn Saud, was a Najdi statesman and religious leader who became the founder and first King of Saudi Arabia, reigning from 23 September
Percy Cox
…priority, in the maintenance of good relations with the Ottomans, who held all the tribal loyalties, whilst prompting India to change policy towards Ibn Saud, the Wahhabi ruler of Nejd and later king of Saudi Arabia, from 1906. One of the few allies was Shaikh Mubarak of Kuwait, whose shared intelligence…
Official portrait, 1940s
Ibn Saud's father, Abdul Rahman bin Faisal Al Saud, last Emir of Nejd
Ibn Saud's signature in a document to Eqab bin Muhaya of Otaibah