A Tale of the Hashamites and the Ottoman Empire

The hashamites had been raising and training an army that the ottoman's thought was going to be used in an assault against the british on the suez canal. As they were going along marching, several of fizel's officers, including one of his brothers, pulled him aside and said, my lord, shall we kill them now? He tried everything, tried a bunch of excuses, tried to break away, but they wouldn't allow it. And soon they were right outside medina. So they wasted no time. Once they got there, they didn't go to their quarters or anything like that. The arab army was ordered to muster up outside the walls