A Brief Memoir of the Life and Writings of the Late Lieutenant-Colonel William Martin Leake (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A Brief Memoir of the Life and Writings of the Late Lieutenant-Colonel William Martin Leake Stephen Martin Leake, the eldest son of Captain Martin, was Colonel William Martin Leake´s grandfather. He held the office of Garter King at Arms, and was the author of several valuable works upon heraldry. He wrote also a treatise upon English money, and a life of his kinsman the Admiral. In the number of his descendants now living are his grandson, Stephen Martin Leake, of Thorpe Hall in Essex, the present representative of the family, and Dr. James Prince Lee, the present Bishop of Manchester. William Martin Leake, the subject of this memoir, received his professional education in the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich. Among his fellow-students he selected as his companions those who, like himself, were animated by a spirit of generous emulation, and with one of them, the late General Sir Howard Douglas, he formed a life-long friendship, which continued with feelings of unabated attachment on both sides for a period of nearly seventy years. In the year 1794, having received his commission as a second lieutenant in the Royal Regiment of Artillery, he was ordered to the West Indies, and he spent there the next four years, which he was accustomed to speak of as the least satisfactory part of his life. When quartered in Antigua, he wrote to his friends at home who had expressed their wish to receive a journal of his proceedings for a week, assuring them that if he were only to send a journal of any one single day in the week, they might take it as a continuous journal for the whole year round. Thus far, at least, the active-minded geographer of classical Greece was altogether out of his element. In the year 1799, being now Captain Leake, he was appointed to a mission to Constantinople, for the purpose of instructing the Turkish troops in the use and practice of artillery; and he thus entered upon the scene of his future labours. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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