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Semper Fidelis march Sir Stephen Bartlett Lakeman, also known as Mazar Paşa or Mozhar Pasha (1823 Sir Stephen Lakeman provine dintr-o familie Anglo- olandeza, aventurier, soldat si administrator. Ca free-lance July 1897) was an English-born British and Ottoman adventurer, soldier, and administrator. A mercenary and veteran of several wars, including the Xhosa and Crimean conflicts, he was assigned by the Ottoman military to Wallachia, where he later settled, becoming in time a supporter of the liberal current in Romania. He was an influential figure in local politics during the early 1870s, and a mediator between Ion Brătianu's government and the Porte at the start of the Russo-Turkish War of 18771878. Lakeman is also noted for having introduced Eastern European fish species to England. Born into a family of Dutch origins, he was a graduate of the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris, France. Lakeman first saw action with the July Monarchy's armies resisting Abd al-Qadir's uprising in French Algeria. He later joined the British Army, left for the Cape Colony. A captain and commander of the Waterkloof Rangers in clashes with the Xhosa people, he was made a Knight Bachelor by Queen Victoria, during a ceremony at Windsor Castle (November 25, 1853). According to his descendant Sybille Manu-Chrissoveloni, Lakeman had unsuccessfully tried to persuade British military officials to generalize the usage of khaki, replacing red coats in the standard uniforms; when his proposal was rejected, he established his own Waterkloof troops of volunteers (also known as the "Death Regiment") Soon afterwards, he opted to join the Ottomans in their Crimean-centered conflict with the Russian Empire, becoming a binbaşı, and later a pasha (becoming known under his Turkish pseudonym Mazar Paşa). When Russian troops evacuated Wallachia, Lakeman, who was serving under Omar Pasha, was appointed to a command position in the region, becoming police chief in Bucharest (September 1854). This occurred as the two Danubian Principalities came under Austrian supervision, a measure which was meant to create a buffer area, while allowing for an Ottoman garrison to be maintained. Lakeman kept close contacts with the Wallachian nationalist circles, clashing with the Austrian governor, Johann Coronini-Cronberg, and becoming the subject of the latter's complaints to Omar Pasha and to Stratford Canning, the British Ambassador in Istanbul. During the same period, he met Maria Arion, whom he married in 1856