“After the capture of Neby Samwil we took the picture of the first Tommy, the first Christian soldier, standing on top of the Mount of Olives on guard over Jerusalem, and at last the dream of civilised peoples for the past thousand years had come true and the Holy Land had been freed, I am sure that it will be impossible for the Turks to ever get control of Jerusalem again! And it is to the eternal credit of the British nation that General Allenby did not allow a single British shell to fall upon the Holy City!”

-Lowell Thomas
“With Allenby in Palestine” (1919)