General de Gaulle wrote to Chandler in French declaring that he had surpassed every other writer about the Emperor's military career." Īccording to his obituary in The Daily Telegraph, his "comprehensive account of Napoleon's battles" ( The Campaigns of Napoleon) is "unlikely to be improved upon, despite a legion of rivals.
He held three visiting professorships: at Ohio State in 1970, at the Virginia Military Institute in 1988, and Marine Corps University in 1991. Īs a young man he served briefly in the army, reaching the rank of captain, and in later life he taught at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. The Campaigns of Napoleon and other books on the Napoleonic eraĭavid Geoffrey Chandler (15 January 1934 – 10 October 2004) was a British historian whose study focused on the Napoleonic era. Military history, especially the Napoleonic Wars
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