William Martin Leake

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Colonel William Martin Leake, FRS (14 January 1777 – 6 January 1860) was a British Army officer, spy, topographer, diplomat, antiquarian and writer who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He spent much of his career in the British army in the Mediterranean seaports.

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