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1921 Syrian revolt

Great Syrian Revolt
Sultan al-Atrash.jpg
Shaykh Hilal al-Atrash, rebel celebration in Hauran, 14 August 1925
Date July 1925 – June 1927
Location French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon
Result French victory
Belligerents

France France

Syrian rebels
Commanders and leaders
France Maurice Sarrail
France Roger Michaud
France Maurice Gamelin
France Henry de Jouvenel
France Charles Andréa
Sultan Pasha al-Atrash
Fawzi al-Qawuqji
Hasan al-Kharrat 
Said al-As
Izz al-Din al-Halabi
Nasib al-Bakri
Muhammad al-Ashmar
Ramadan al-Shallash (defected to France)

France France

The Great Syrian Revolt (Arabic: الثورة السورية الكبرى‎‎) or Great Druze Revolt (1925–1927) was a general uprising across Mandatory Syria and Lebanon aimed at getting rid of the French, who had been in control of the region since the end of World War I. The uprising was not centrally coordinated; rather, it was attempted by multiple factions – among them Sunni, Druze, Alawite, Christian, and Shia – with the common goal of ending French rule. The revolt was ultimately put down by French forces.

In 1918, towards the end of World War I, the Ottoman Empire's forces withdrew from Syria after being defeated by the Allied Powers (Great Britain and France) and their Hashemite Arab allies from the Hejaz. The British had promised the Hashemites control over a united Arab state consisting of the bulk of Arabic-speaking lands from which the Ottomans withdrew, even as the Allies made other plans for the region in the 1916 Sykes–Picot Agreement.


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