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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Clerk was a British engineer officer who served in the War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years` War. His report on the state of the defences of Rochefort (Rochefort, Charente-Maritime)in 1757 was the main reason for that French naval port being chosen as the target for a major British expedition, the Raid on Rochefort, for which Clerk was appointed chief engineer.