Sentence 1: Mardam Bey then returned to Syria and co-founded the National Bloc in October 1927 , the leading Anti-French movement in Damascus .
Sentence 2: Mardam Bey then returned to Damascus and helped co-found the National Bloc in October 1927 , the leading anti-French movement in Syria .
Question: Do Sentence 1 and Sentence 2 express the same meaning? Yes or No?