User blog:Battlefan237/DW Rematch : Lawrence of Arabia vs. Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt


'''Theodore "T.R." Roosevelt, Jr. ''' was the 26th President of the United States (1901–1909). He is noted for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his leadership of the Progressive Movement, as well as his "cowboy" persona and robust masculinity. He was a leader of the Republican Party and founder of the first incarnation of the short-lived Progressive ("Bull Moose") Party of 1912. Before becoming President, he held offices at the city, state, and federal levels. Roosevelt's achievements as a naturalist, explorer, hunter, author, and soldier are as much a part of his fame as any office he held as a politician. Roosevelt was 42 years old when sworn in as President of the United States in 1901, making him the youngest president ever; he beat out the youngest elected president, John F. Kennedy, by only one year. Roosevelt was also the first of only three sitting presidents to have won the Nobel Peace Prize. The Teddy bear is named after him, despite his contempt for being called "Teddy".

Weapons

 * -|Melee=
 * Bowie Knife
 * Weight: 2 lb
 * Length:Approximately 20 inches
 * -|Handgun=
 * Colt Single Action Army
 * Feeding System : 6-shot cylinder
 * Round:.45 Colt (11.43x33mm)
 * Weight:2.2 lbs
 * Action:Single Action
 * Range:40-50 yds
 * M.V.:960 ft/s
 * -|Rifle=
 * Krag–Jørgensen
 * Round: .30 U.S.
 * Weight:3.375 kg
 * Length:986mm
 * Action:Bolt-action
 * Range: 900 m (3,000 ft)
 * Feed system:5-round magazine
 * M.V.: 580 m/s
 * -|Machine gun=
 * M1895 Colt–Browning machine gun (aka. Potato Digger)
 * ROF: 400-450 rpm
 * Feeding system: Belt-fed only
 * Caritage: .30-40 Krag
 * Weight:16 kg (35.3 lb)
 * Length:1.040 m (41 in)

Lawrence of Arabia
"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible."

- Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph by T.E. Lawrence

Thomas Edward Lawrence, better known as Lawrence of Arabia, was a British Army officer renowned especially for his liaison work during the Arab Revolt against Ottoman Turkish rule between 1916 and 1918.

Born on August 16, 1888, in Tremadog, Gwynedd, Lawrence the child of an unmarried couple. Despite having a relatively happy childhood, Lawrence was a bit of an outsider considering he was born a bastard. He claimed that he once ran away from his parents and served as a child soldier for a few weeks, though there are no records of this. Around his teenage years, Lawrence began to develop an interest in antiquities and archaeology, something he continued to have an interest in well into adulthood and became an archaeologist.

In January 1914, he and fellow archaeologist Charles Leonard Woolley were co-opted by the British military as an archaeological smokescreen for a British military survey of the Negev Desert. Along the way, the two made an archaeological survey of the desert, as well as updating the army mapping of the area.

As tensions between the Arabs and Ottomans began to rise, Lawrence was eager to join the British Army in order to help the Arabs, though was advised not to until October by his friend Lutenite Colonel Stewart Francis Newcombe. Eventually, the Arab Revolt broke out and Lawrence, along with a few other British military personnel, was deployed to aid the rebels. Thanks to Lawrence's effort the rebels managed to push the Ottoman forces out of Arabia.

After the war, he returned to the UK and served in the Royal Air Force for a while and collected motorcycles. On May 3, 1935, Lawrence crashed his motorcycle after trying to avoid hitting two boys on their bikes, he died six days later in the hospital.

Weapons

 * -|Melee=
 * Khanjar
 * Weight: 1-2 lb
 * Length: Approximately 16 inches
 * -|Handgun=
 * Webley Revolver
 * Feeding System : 6-round cylinder
 * Round:.455 Webley (11.5x19.6mm)
 * Weight:2.4 lb, unloaded
 * Action:Double Action
 * Range:50 yd
 * M.V.:620 ft/s
 * -|Rifle=
 * Short Magazine Lee–Enfield Mk III
 * Round:.303 Enfield
 * Weight:4kg
 * Length:1100mm
 * Action:Bolt-action
 * Range: 550 yd (503 meters)
 * Feed system:5-round charger clips
 * M.V.:744 m/s
 * -|Machine gun=
 * Hotchkiss M1909 Benét–Mercié machine gun
 * ROF: 400-600 rpm
 * Feeding system: 30-round feed strip, or belt-fed
 * Caritage: .303 British
 * Weight:12 kg (26.5 lb)
 * Length:1.23 m (48 in)