I have always believed that successes would be the inevitable result if the two services, the army and the navy, had fair play, and if we sent the ri… - Austen Henry Layard

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I have always believed that successes would be the inevitable result if the two services, the army and the navy, had fair play, and if we sent the right man to fill the right place.

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About Austen Henry Layard

Sir Austen Henry Layard (5 March 1817 – 5 July 1894) was a British traveler, archaeologist, cuneiformist, art historian, draughtsman, collector, author and diplomatist, best known as the excavator of Nimrud.

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Alternative Names: Sir Austen Henry Layard Austen Henry Layard Sir Austen Henry, Sir Layard
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Who would have believed it probable or possible, before these discoveries were made, that beneath the heap of earth and rubbish which marked the site of Nineveh, there would be found the history of the wars between Hezekiah and Sennacherib, written at the very time when they took place by Sennacherib himself, and confirming even in minute details the Biblical record?

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