MAPS OF HISTORY · ON THIS DAY · June 10
THE DAY IN HISTORY · JUNE 10
June 10 in history
1190 — The Saleph
10 Jun 1190 — Frederick Barbarossa, the mightiest king of the age, drowns crossing a river in Cilicia. His great German army dissolves in grief and disease before it reaches the Holy Land.
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1916 — The Arab Revolt
10 Jun 1916 — Sharif Hussein of Mecca raises revolt against Ottoman rule, on British promises of Arab independence. His sons’ armies — with a liaison officer named T. E. Lawrence — will cut the Hejaz railway and enter Damascus in 1918.
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