William Shakespear (explorer)
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William Shakespear (explorer)
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Captain William Henry Irvine Shakespear, CIE, was a British civil servant and explorer who mapped uncharted areas of Northern Arabia and made the first official British contact with Ibn Sa'ud, future king of Saudi Arabia. He was the military adviser to Ibn Sa'ud from 1910 to 1915, when he was shot and killed in the Battle of Jarrab by Ibn Shraim. He was buried in Kuwait.
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English explorer (1878–1915)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespear_(explorer)
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2024-03-30T17:31:05Z
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