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Vor 4 Tagen · It was not until the intrepid efforts of British army officer Henry Rawlinson in the 1830s-1840s that the multilingual relief began to yield its secrets. Rawlinson‘s groundbreaking translation work, carried out at great personal risk on the cliff face itself, opened a new window onto the world of the ancient Near East. Just as the ...
Vor 3 Tagen · Field Marshal Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, 1st Baronet, GCB, DSO (5 May 1864 – 22 June 1922) was one of the most senior British Army staff officers of the First World War and was briefly an Irish unionist politician.
Vor einem Tag · In English-speaking countries, the prevailing scholarly interpretation during the early twentieth century was one originally proposed by Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet, which held that Gilgamesh is a "solar hero", whose actions represent the movements of the sun, and that the twelve tablets of his epic represent the twelve signs of ...
Vor 5 Tagen · Explorer Henry Creswicke Rawlinson at Behistun. Despite the ladder being too short, Rawlinson attempted to cross a chasm using it as a bridge. Although the ladder broke, Rawlinson was able to swing his way back to the ledge. From Look and Learn 275 (22 April 1967).
Vor 5 Tagen · He served under Henry Rawlinson as commandant, while the other instructors included his future colleagues Richard Haking, John du Cane, Thompson Capper and Launcelot Kiggell. At Staff College he was the first instructor to win the College point-to-point.
Vor 4 Tagen · This intelligence failure fed into the overconfidence and optimistic assumptions of the British commanders. They believed the preliminary bombardment would obliterate the German defenses and that the infantry would simply occupy the blasted ground.[^14] General Henry Rawlinson, commander of the British Fourth Army, assured his men:
Vor 3 Tagen · The present and seventh baronet, is Sir Henry, great-grandson of Sir John. In the year 1808, he took the name of Crewe, by the King's sign-manual, in consequence of his descent from Lord Crewe, as above-mentioned.
