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

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whose study focused on the

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. As 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. Oxford University awarded him the D. Litt. in 1991. He held three visiting professorships: at

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in 1970, at the

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in 1988, and

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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 Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (; ; (commonly abbreviated as CDG) 22 November 18909 November 1970) was a French army officer and statesman who led Free France against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Governm ...

wrote to Chandler in French declaring that he had surpassed every other writer about the Emperor's military career."Obituary of David Chandler
''

'', 9 November 2004 He was also the author of a military biography of

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, 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: Macmillan. . * 1973 – ''Napoleon''. London,

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. . reprinted 2000, Barnsley,

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

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. . * 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: Spellmount. . * 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:

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. . * 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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