"Our
armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as
liberators. Your wealth has been stripped of you by unjust men ...The people of
Baghdad shall flourish under institutions which are in consonance with their
sacred laws...The Arab race may rise once more to greatness!"
-Gen.
F.S. Maude, commander of British forces in Iraq, 1917.
British troops killed between 6,000 and 10,000 Iraqis in 1920.