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Robert Matteson Johnston

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Name
  
Robert Johnston

Role
  
Historian

Died
  
1920


Education
  
Eton College, University of Cambridge

Books
  
The French Revolution: A Short H, The Napoleonic Empire in, Arms and the Race: The Foun, Histories of France: The Fren, Bull Run: Its Strategy and Tatics

Robert Matteson Johnston (1867–1920) was an American historian and an important scholar of military history. He was born in Paris, Texas, and educated at Eton College and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He taught at Harvard University and Mount Holyoke College. In 1917, he was appointed Chief of the Historical Section of the General Staff in the field with the rank of major in the United States Army.

Scholarship

  • The Roman Theocracy and the Republic, 1846-49 (1901)
  • Napoleon: A Short Biography (1904)
  • The Napoleonic Empire in Southern Italy and the Rise of the Secret Societies (1904)
  • The Memoirs of Malakoff (1907)
  • American Soldiers (1907)
  • The French Revolution (1909)
  • The Corsican (1910)
  • The Holy Christian Church (1912)
  • Mémoire de Marie Caroline, reine de Naples (1912)
  • Bull Run (1913)
  • First Reflections on the Campaign of 1918 (1920) OCLC 1022272
  • References

    Robert Matteson Johnston Wikipedia