David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

telegraph line at Buair on March 24,
sabotaged a train and twenty-five rails at
Abu al-Naam on March 25, dynamited
fifteen rails and cut a telegraph line at
Istabl Antar on March 27, raided a
Turkish garrison and derailed a train on
March 29, returned to Buair and
sabotaged the railway line again on
March 31, dynamited eleven rails at
Hedia on April 3, raided the train line in
the area of Wadi Daiji on April 4 and 5,
and attacked twice on April 6.
Lawrence’s masterstroke was an
assault on the port town of Aqaba. The
Turks expected an attack from British
ships patrolling the waters of the Gulf of
Aqaba to the west. Lawrence decided to
attack from the east instead, coming at