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    Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson

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  1. General Henry Seymour Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson, GCB, GCSI, GCVO, KCMG, KStJ (20 February 1864 – 28 March 1925), known as Sir Henry Rawlinson, 2nd Baronet between 1895 and 1919, was a senior British Army officer in the First World War who commanded the Fourth Army of the British Expeditionary Force at the battles of the Somme (1916) and ...

  2. Apr 7, 2024 · Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson (born April 11, 1810, Chadlington, Oxfordshire, Eng.—died March 5, 1895, London) was a British army officer and Orientalist who deciphered the Old Persian portion of the trilingual cuneiform inscription of Darius I the Great at Bīsitūn, Iran.

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  3. Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson (April 11, 1810 – March 5, 1895) was an English diplomat and orientalist, sometimes referred to as the "Father of Assyriology." Rawlinson initially came into contact with Persian inscriptions while posted with the military and the East India Company in the Middle East. While serving both as a soldier and ...

  4. Apr 11, 2021 · On April 11, 1810, British East India Company army officer, politician and Orientalist Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson was born. As an army officer, became interested in antiquities after his assignment to reorganize the Persian army.

  5. Mar 31, 2015 · Sir Henry Rawlinson was born in 1864. His father was a diplomat. Rawlinson joined the British Army and served pre-World War One in India, the Sudan (1898) and in the Second Boer War. When World War One broke out, Rawlinson was handed the command of IV Corps.

  6. Sir Henry Rawlinson. Sir Henry Rawlinson (1864-1925) was born in 1864, the son of a diplomat. Having joined the British Army he served in the Myanmar expedition of 1886-87 under Lord Roberts, in the Sudan campaign (1898) with Lord Kitchener (minister for war during the First World War from 1914-16), and in the Second Boer War (1899-1901).

  7. Mar 22, 2015 · Sir Henry Rawlinson, who had been British Consul in Baghdad at the time of Rassam's nocturnal excavations at Nineveh, now claimed the discovery of Ashurbanipal's palace for himself.

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