Sir James Leslie or Lesley (died 1702) was a British army officer of the seventeenth century.
[5] By 1680 he had been knighted,[4] and King Charles II promoted him to the majority of his regiment on 10 November that year;[6] in 1681 he was sent as ambassador to the Court of Morocco.
[4] He served against the rebels under the Duke of Monmouth in the summer of 1685, was at the Battle of Sedgemoor,[5] and was rewarded by King James II with the lieutenant-colonelcy of the Queen Dowager's Regiment on 19 September 1687.
[7] Joining the interests of the Prince of Orange at the Revolution, he was nominated colonel of the 15th Regiment of Foot on 31 December 1688, with which corps he served against the insurgent clans in Scotland, and also under King William III in Flanders.
He yielded to the suggestions of the governor and voted in a council of war for the surrender of the town, for which he was cashiered by sentence of a general court-martial.