Hundreds of soldiers were straggling in disorder, many of them on leave but many deserting.

Soon after the defeat at the Canal several thousand soldiers deserted, but an amnesty was declared and they returned to their regiments.
When I arrived at Jerusalem I found the city filled with soldiers.
Djemal Pasha had just returned from the desert, and his quarters were guarded by a battery of two field guns.

Nobody knew what to expect; some thought that the country would have a little more freedom now that the soldiery had lost its braggadocio, while others expected the lawlessness that attends disorganization.

I went to see Consul Glazebrook.

He is a true American, a Southerner, formerly a professor of theology at Princeton.