Robert Matteson Johnston (1867–1920) was an American historian and an important scholar of military history.
Biography
Robert Matteson Johnston was born in
Paris
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on April 11, 1867.
He was educated at
Eton College
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and
Pembroke College, Cambridge.
He taught at
Harvard University
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and
Mount Holyoke College
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, and was a founding member of the faculty at
Simmons University.
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.
He died in
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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on January 28, 1920.
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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'', 2 vols. (London: Macmillan, 1904)
Vol. 1Vol. 2
* ''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)
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American military historians
American male non-fiction writers
Mount Holyoke College faculty
Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge
Harvard University faculty
1867 births
1920 deaths
People educated at Eton College
United States Army personnel of World War I
American expatriates in France
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