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William Willoughby Cole Verner

Colonel William Willoughby Cole Verner was a British soldier, writer, ornithologist, and inventor of a type of compass. He was briefly a Professor of Topography at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He is remembered for bringing Cueva de la Pileta, a cave filled with prehistoric paintings, to international attention.

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Boys of the Light Brigade: A Story of Spain and the Peninsular War

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