David Geoffrey Chandler (15 January 1934 – 10 October 2004) was a British

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whose study focused on the Napoleonic era. As a young man he served briefly in the army, reaching the rank of captain, and in later life he taught at the

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. Oxford University awarded him the

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in 1991. He held three visiting professorships: at

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in 1970, at the

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in 1988, and Marine Corps University in 1991. According to his obituary in ''

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'', his "comprehensive account of Napoleon's battles" (''The Campaigns of Napoleon'') is "unlikely to be improved upon, despite a legion of rivals. ... General de Gaulle wrote to Chandler in French declaring that he had surpassed every other writer about the Emperor's military career."Obituary of David Chandler
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'', 9 November 2004 He was also the author of a military biography of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, and of ''The Art of Warfare in the Age of Marlborough''.

Awards

*1979 Gold Cross of Merit of Poland *1939–1960 British National Service

Works

* 1966 –
The Campaigns of Napoleon
'. New York:

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. . * 1973 – ''Napoleon''. London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson. . reprinted 2000, Barnsley,

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. * 1979 – ''Dictionary of the Napoleonic Wars''. New York: Macmillan. . * 1979 – ''Marlborough as Military Commander''. London:

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. . * 1980 – ''Atlas of Military Strategy: The Art, Theory and Practice of War, 1618–1878''. London: Arms & Armour. . * 1981 – ''Waterloo: The Hundred Days''. Oxford:

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. . * 1987 – ''Napoleon's Marshals'' (ed.). New York: Macmillan. . * 1987 –
The Military Maxims of Napoleon
' (ed.). London: Greenhill. . * 1987 – ''The Dictionary of Battles'' (ed.). London: Ebury Press. . * 1989 – ''Battles and Battlescenes of World War Two''. New York: Macmillan. . * 1990 – ''The Illustrated Napoleon''. London: Greenhill. . * 1990 – ''Austerlitz, 1805: Battle of the Three Emperors (Osprey Military Campaign)''. London: Osprey. . * 1990 – ''The Art of Warfare in the Age of Marlborough''. Staplehurst, UK:

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. . * 1993 –
Jena 1806: Napoleon destroys Prussia
' Osprey Publishing. . * 1994 – ''On the Napoleonic Wars''. London: Greenhill. . * 1994 – ''The Oxford Illustrated History of the British Army''. (ed.). Oxford: University Press. . * 1994 – ''The D-Day Encyclopedia''. (ed with

James Lawton Collins Jr. James Lawton Collins Jr. (5 November 1917 – 6 May 2002) was a brigadier general in the U.S. Army who served in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War, a military historian, and a viticulturist. He was the son of Major General James ...

). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Helicon .

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Chandler, David G. Historians of Europe Historians of the Napoleonic Wars Historians of the French Revolution 1934 births 2004 deaths Royal Army Educational Corps officers 20th-century British historians Academics of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst 20th-century British Army personnel

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