Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson (1864–1925), his son, British general in the First World War
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With Sir Henry Rawlinson and Dr Edward Hincks he shares the honour of having been one of the first decipherers of the cuneiform inscriptions of Nineveh.
The heaviest defeats were in Rawlinson's own sector, in front of Pozières and Thiepval.
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Following the success of the Australian attack at Le Hamel on 4 July, Haig entrusted Rawlinson with planning a larger attack, designed to force the Germans back from the city of Amiens, and also further to damage the German Army's weakening morale.
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In February 1918 he was appointed British Permanent Military Representative to the inter-Allied Supreme War Council at Versailles.
Henry Rawlinson supported Sayce's views and further asserted that the ancient Babylonians knew of two principle races, as found in their inscriptions: "the Adamu, or dark race and the Sarku, or light race".
Layard noted in his work that Henry Rawlinson, the "Father of Assyriology", disagreed with the identification as the biblical Lachish.