William Ouseley
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Sir William Ouseley HFRSE FSAScot, was a British orientalist.
by H.R.Cook after Samuel Drummond
Boulogne-sur-Mer
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Boulogne-sur-Mer, often called just Boulogne, is a port city in Northern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department of Pas-de-Calais. Boulogne lies on the Côte d'Opale, a touristic stretch of Fr
William Ouseley
…and Notes on the Bedouins and Wahbys. He contributed a number of important papers to the Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature. He died at Boulogne-sur-Mer. Attribution…
A general view from the Brecquerecque Quarter: The modern lighthouse, the medieval bell tower and the English Channel
The Tour d'Ordre, a Roman lighthouse, in 1550. It fell into the sea in 1644, having stood for over 1600 years.
The Column of the Grande Armée commemorates Napoleon's gathering of 200,000 soldiers near Boulogne for a proposed invasion of the United Kingdom. His statue is at the top
A "special pass" issued for travel within Boulogne by the British Red Cross in May 1917, during World War I