Boghos Nubar

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Boghos Nubar (1851-1930) was a liberal, the son of Egyptian Prime Minister Nubar Pasha and the founder, alongside ten other Armenian national movement leaders, of the Armenian General Benevolent Union on April 15, 1905.

[edit] Career

Boghos Nubar was awarded the Belgian "Ordre de Leopold" and Egyptian "Mejidieh", "Osmanieh" and "Nile" honorary degrees and medals for distinguished services[1] Nubar fought valiantly for the Armenian cause.[2] In January, 1919, The Times published a letter from the Boghos Nubar in which he protests, blatedly, about the non-representation of Armenians at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919. The letter includes a useful summary of the Armenian contribution to the allied war effort.[3]

Our volunteers fought in the French Foreign Legion and covered themselves with glory. In the Legion d'orient they numbered over 5,000 and made up more than half of the French contingent in Syria and Palestine, which took part in Genereal Allenby's decisive victory.

In the Caucasus, without mentioning the 150,000 Armenians in the Russian Armies, about 50,000 Armenian volunteers under Andranik Nazarbekoff and others, not only fought for four years for the Entente, but after the breakdown of Russia, they were the only forces in the Caucasus to resist the advance of the Turks, whom they held in check until the Armistice was signed. They helped the British in Mesopotamia by preventing the ...[4]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Nubar and Nubarashem, a publication of the general Directorship of the Armenian General Benevolent Union (Paris, 1929), 5-7.
  2. ^ By Joan George "Merchants in Exile: The Armenians of Manchester, England, 1835-1935" page 184
  3. ^ By Joan George "Merchants in Exile: The Armenians of Manchester, England, 1835-1935" page 184
  4. ^ By Joan George, Merchants in Exile: The Armenians of Manchester, England, 1835-1935, page 184-185
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