The American Cyclopædia (1879)/Lake, Henry Atwell

LAKE, Henry Atwell, an English soldier, born about 1809. He is a younger son of Sir James Samuel William Lake, and rose in the engineer service in India (1826–'55) to the rank of lieutenant colonel. In the Crimean war he rendered Kars almost impregnable, and was called by the Russians the English Todleben, and was not held responsible for the surrender of that stronghold (1855). With Gen. Williams he was a prisoner of war in Russia till the restoration of peace, and after his return to England he published "Kars and our Captivity in Russia" (London, 1857). Subsequently he was made colonel, aide-de-camp to the queen, and chief commissioner of the Dublin police.