He had 1,500 soldiers and some of armed tribesmen, Hussein's army had no guns and Britain provided him with two cannons that accelerated the fall of Jeddah and Taif. Then he went to Aqaba, where the second phase of the revolution officially began in late 1917 supported by the British army that occupied Jerusalem on 9 September 1917 and before the end of the year all of the Sanjak Jerusalem was under British rule. In the meantime, the army of Hussein was growing rapidly, where joined by two thousand soldiers with their weapons led by Abdul Qadir al-Husseini from Jerusalem and most of the tribesmen of those areas joined the revolution.