Gabriel Jacques Surenne

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Gabriel Jacques Surenne was a 19th century French military historian who authored numerous publications in the fields of warfare and battle analysis and also in French grammar. Gabriel Surenne was a master at the Scottish Military and Naval Academy, an Edinburgh institution 'for training young men, chiefly for the service of the royal and East India Company's services; Surenne also contributed to the various branches of military education such as fortification, military drawing, gun-drill, and military exercises.[1] The Academy was closed in the late 19th century.

[edit] Theory of Mons Graupius

Surenne analysed the noted historic battle of Mons Graupius and concluded in a letter to Sir Walter Scott[2] that the most likely location of this first recorded battle in Scottish history was in the vicinity of Kempstone Hill and the Raedykes Roman Camp.[3]

[edit] References

  1. ^ James Grant, Old and New Edinburgh, vol. 3, p. 138
  2. ^ Gabriel Jacques Surenne, Letter to Sir Walter Scott, (1827)
  3. ^ C.Michael Hogan, Elsick Mounth, 2007, The Megalithic Portal, Ed. Andy Burnham
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