Did European Christians consider the UK (a nominally Christian nation) taking Jerusalem from The Ottomans (a Muslim empire) in WW1 to be significant? | AskHistorians Archive Observer

Did European Christians consider the UK (a nominally Christian nation) taking Jerusalem from The Ottomans (a Muslim empire) in WW1 to be significant?

by StephenIrelandsGran

After all, this has been the dream of generations of Crusaders in the Middle Ages. And even though Europe was less religious in 1917, it was still quite religious compared to today

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I'm not familiar with the wider perception of European Christians regarding Jerusalem during WW I. Randall Baker, in King Husain and the Kingdom of Hejaz, mentions that King George V referred to British involvement in Palestine as "Final Crusade."