Gabriel Jacques Surenne

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. The Academy was closed in the late 19th century.

Theory of Mons Graupius
Surenne analysed the noted historic battle of Mons Graupius and concluded in a letter to Sir Walter Scott 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.