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BRITISH VICTORY IN THE NORTH On the Amiens front, in Picardy, the British Fourth Army, under General Rawlinson, and the French First Army, under General Debentry, stormed the German positions on August 8 on a front of over 20 miles, capturing 14,000 prisoners and 150 guns, and making an advance of over seven miles.

By August 15 the total number of prisoners captured by the British Fourth Army, under General Rawlinson, was 21,844.

The women were remarkable for their beauty; and Sir Henry Rawlinson once said at one of their meetings that the most beautiful Oriental woman he ever saw was a Kafir, and that she had, besides other charms, a great mass of golden hair, which, let loose and shaken, covered her completely from head to foot like a veil.

Since my arrival here I have submitted the seal to Sir Henry Rawlinson.

The President said that Mr. McNair agreed with Sir Henry Rawlinson that the route he had described would undoubtedly be the best into Central Asia, but the account of the journey did not inspire him (the President) with any confidence as to immediate results in the future.

An intrepid explorer himself, vide the announcement made regarding Colonel Holdich by Sir Henry Rawlinson at the close of the discussion on the paper read by McNair, Colonel Holdich has added year by year to his many signal scientific services rendered to the Indian Government; and recently he has added to his many accomplishments the rarer merit among men of that love of worth in others, which culminates in human brotherhood.

The translation of this great history by Rawlinson, with notes, is invaluable.

Rawlinson estimates it at two thousand, and Dean Payne Smith at three thousand.

Rawlinson's "Ancient Monarchies," vol.

On the 24th of May I received an invitation from the English resident, Major Rawlinson, to an entertainment in honour of the queen's birthday.

On both occasions, Major Rawlinson provided me with good Arabian horses, and a trusty servant.

I first dismounted at the caravansary, and then procured a guide to the English Vice-consul, Mr. Rassam, who had already prepared a room for me, as he had been previously informed of my coming by a letter from Major Rawlinson, at Baghdad.

The English resident at Baghdad, Major Rawlinson, had made himself perfectly master of the cuneiform character.

[Footnote 38: Rawlinson's Herodotus, Book i, chap.

The Gypsies, according to Sir Henry Rawlinson, came from the Indo-Scythic tribes who inhabited the mouths of the Indus, and began to migrate northward, from the fourth century onward.

Rawlinson, Home, and Byng have carried on the hammer work begun by Mangin, Gouraud, and Debeney.

This catastrophe induced an examination to be made of other storage reservoir dams in the same district, and a report on the subject was presented to Parliament by Sir Robert Rawlinson.

The Leeshaw dam, which was being constructed at that time upon the same lines, viz., with culvert outlet under the dam, was, at the advice of Sir Robert Rawlinson, altered to a side tunnel outlet clear of the dam.

In Rawlinson's Manuscripts in the Bodleian (c. 258.), which I take to have been written either in, or very soon after, the reign of Henry VIII.

Sir Robert Rawlinson, the sanitary expert, who was called in to inspect Windsor Castle after the Prince Consort's death, reported that, within the Queen's reign, "cesspools full of putrid refuse and drains of the worst description existed beneath the basements....

RAWLINSON, Dr., iv.

Wood, Anthony à, Assembly Man, v. 57, n. 2; on Burton's tutor at Christ Church, i. 59; Rawlinson's collections for a continuation of the Athenae, iv.

STAPLETON, HERBERT J., executor of the Estate of Eleanor Rawlinson.

SEE Rawlinson, Eleanor, Estate of.

[20] Notes to Rawlinson's Herodotus, b. ii.

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