Major-General Sir Charles William Wilson was a British Army officer, geographer and archaeologist.
Portrait of Sir Charles William Wilson
Charles William Wilson; Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem. 1865
Charles Wilson, sometime between 1858 and 1861
Nile Expedition
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The Nile Expedition, sometimes called the Gordon Relief Expedition, was a British mission to relieve Major-General Charles George Gordon at Khartoum, Sudan. Gordon had been sent to Sudan to help the E
Charles Wilson (British Army officer)
…that time, he edited the multi-volume set Picturesque Palestine, Sinai, and Egypt. From 1884 to 1885, Wilson, with a rank of Colonel, took part in the Khartoum Relief Expedition, commanded by Garnet Wolseley. He was intelligence officer attached to the Desert Column led by Sir Herbert Stewart. Desert Column was ordered to strike…
11th Hussars from the Gordon Relief Expedition
Photograph of Camel Corps, 2 Sikhs at the 'Ready'. Photograph by Felice Beato, 1884/85.