See also:

• CHARLES
• CHARLES (1270-1325)
• CHARLES (1421-1461)
• CHARLES (1525-1574)
• CHARLES (c. 1319-1364)
• CHARLES (Fr. Charles; Span. Carlos; Ital. Carlo; Ger. Karl; derived from O.H.G. Charal,latinized as Carolus, meaning originally " man ": cf. Mod.Ger., Kerl," fellow," A.S. ceorl, Mod. Eng. " churl ")
• CHARLES (KARL EITEL ZEPHYRIN LUDWIG; in Rum. CAROL)
• CHARLES [KARL ALEXANDER] (1712-1780)
• CHARLES, ELIZABETH (1828-1896)
• CHARLES, JACQUES ALEXANDRE CESAR (1746-1823)
• CHARLES, THOMAS (1755-1814)

CHARLES See also:

• CORNWALLIS, CHARLES CORNWALLIS
• CORNWALLIS, SIR WILLIAM (1744-1819)

CORNWALLIS See also:

• CHARLES CORNWALLIS CHESNEY (1826-1876)
• CHESNEY, FRANCIS RAWDON (1789-1872)
• CHESNEY, SIR GEORGE TOMKYNS (1830-1895)

CHESNEY (1826-1876)  , See also:

• BRITISH

British soldier and military writer, the third son of See also:

• CHARLES
• CHARLES (1270-1325)
• CHARLES (1421-1461)
• CHARLES (1525-1574)
• CHARLES (c. 1319-1364)
• CHARLES (Fr. Charles; Span. Carlos; Ital. Carlo; Ger. Karl; derived from O.H.G. Charal,latinized as Carolus, meaning originally " man ": cf. Mod.Ger., Kerl," fellow," A.S. ceorl, Mod. Eng. " churl ")
• CHARLES (KARL EITEL ZEPHYRIN LUDWIG; in Rum. CAROL)
• CHARLES [KARL ALEXANDER] (1712-1780)
• CHARLES, ELIZABETH (1828-1896)
• CHARLES, JACQUES ALEXANDRE CESAR (1746-1823)
• CHARLES, THOMAS (1755-1814)

Charles See also:

• CORNWALLIS, CHARLES CORNWALLIS
• CORNWALLIS, SIR WILLIAM (1744-1819)

Cornwallis See also:

• CHESNEY, CHARLES CORNWALLIS (1826-1876)
• CHESNEY, FRANCIS RAWDON (1789-1872)
• CHESNEY, SIR GEORGE TOMKYNS (1830-1895)

Chesney, See also:

• CAPTAIN (derived from Lat. ca put, head, through the Low Lat. capitanus)

captain on the retired See also:

• LIST (O.E. lisle, a Teutonic word, cf. Dut. lust, Ger. Leiste, adapted in Ital. lista and Fr. lisle)
• LIST, FRIEDRICH (1789-1846)

list of the See also:

• BENGAL
• BENGAL, BAY OF

Bengal See also:

• ARTILLERY (the O. Fr. artiller, to equip with engines of war, probably comes from Late Lat. articulum, dim. of ars, art, cf. " engine " from ingenium, or of artus, joint)

Artillery, and See also:

• NEPHEW

nephew of See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

General F . R . Chesney, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in Co . Down, See also:

• IRELAND
• IRELAND, CHURCH
• IRELAND, CHURCH OF
• IRELAND, JOHN (1761-1842)
• IRELAND, JOHN (1838- )
• IRELAND, WILLIAM HENRY (1777-1835)

Ireland, on the 29th of See also:

• SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1826 . Educated at Blundell's school, See also:

• TIVERTON

Tiverton, and afterwards at the Royal Military See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

Academy, See also:

• WOOLWICH

Woolwich, he obtained his first See also:

• COMMISSION (from Lat. commissio, committere)

commission as second See also:

• LIEUTENANT

lieutenant of See also:

• ENGINEERS, MILITARY

engineers in 1845, passing out of the academy at the See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head of his See also:

• TERM

term . His See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early service was spent in the See also:

• ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

ordinary course of regimental See also:

• DUTY (from " due," that which is owing, O. Fr. deu, dil, past participle of devoir; Lat. debere, debitum; cf. " debt ")

duty at See also:

• HOME
• HOME, DANIEL DUNGLAS (1833-1886)
• HOME, EARLS OF

home and abroad, and he was stationed in New See also:

• ZEALAND (also SEALAND Or SEELAND; Danish Sjaelland)

Zealand during the See also:

• CRIMEAN

Crimean See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

War . Among the various reforms in the British military See also:

• SYSTEM

system which followed from that war was the impetus given to military See also:

• EDUCATION

education; and in 1858 Captain Chesney was appointed See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of military See also:

• HISTORY

history at See also:

• SANDHURST

Sandhurst . In 1864 he succeeded See also:

• COLONEL (derived either from Lat. column, Fr. colonne, column, or Lat. corona, a crown)

Colonel (afterwards See also:

• SIR

Sir See also:

• EDWARD

Edward) See also:

• HAMLEY, SIR EDWARD BRUCE (1824-1893)

Hamley in the corresponding See also:

• CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair at the See also:

• STAFF (O. Eng. staef, cf. Du. staf, Ger. Stab, &c.; Icel. stafr meant also a written letter, and O. Eng. stafas, the letters of the alphabet; " stave," one of the thin pieces of wood of which a cask is made, is a doublet)

Staff See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

College . The writings of these two brilliant See also:

• OFFICERS

officers had a See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence not only at home, but on the See also:

• CONTINENT (from Lat. continere, "to hold together "; hence " connected," " continuous ")

continent and in See also:

• AMERICA

America . Chesney's first published See also:

• WORK

work (1863) was an See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of the See also:

• CIVIL

Civil War in See also:

• VIRGINIA
• VIRGINIA, or VERGINIA
• VIRGINIA, UNIVERSITY OF

Virginia, which went through several See also:

• EDITIONS

editions . But the work which attained the greatest reputation was his See also:

• WATERLOO

Waterloo Lectures (1868), prepared from the notes of lectures orally delivered at the Staff College . Up to that See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time the See also:

• ENGLISH

English literature on the Waterloo See also:

• CAMPAIGN

campaign, although voluminous, was made up of See also:

• PERSONAL

personal reminiscences or of formal records, useful materials for history rather than history itself; and the See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French accounts had mainly taken the See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of fiction .

In Chesney's lucid and vigorous account of the momentous struggle, while it illustrates both the See also:

• STRATEGY

strategy and See also:

• TACTICS (Gr. TaeTOc*, sc. TEXvnI, from TavQecv, to arrange in order of battle)

tactics which culminated in the final See also:

• CATASTROPHE (Gr. Karaurpoch, from KaraQrp4ecv, to over-turn)

catastrophe, the mistakes committed by See also:

• NAPOLEON

Napoleon are laid See also:

• BARE

bare, and for the first.time an English writer is found to point out that the dispositions of See also:

• WELLINGTON
• WELLINGTON, ARTHUR WELLESLEY, 1ST DUKE OF (1769-1852)

Wellington were far from faultless . And in the Waterloo Lectures the Prussians are for the first time credited by an English See also:

• PEN (Lat. penna, a feather, pen)

pen with their proper See also:

• SHARE (O. Eng. scearu, chiefly in compounds, e.g. land-scearu, a share of land, from sceran to cut; cf. " shear" )

share in the victory . The work attracted much See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention abroad as well as at home, and French and See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German See also:

• TRANSLATIONS

translations were published . Chesney was for many years a See also:

• CONSTANT, BENJAMIN (1845-1902)

constant contributor to the newspaper See also:

• PRESS (through Fr. presse from Lat. pressare, frequentative of premere, to crush, squeeze, press)

press and to periodic literature, devoting himself for the most See also:

• PART

part to the See also:

• CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

critical treatment of military operations, and professional subjects generally . Some of his essays on military See also:

• BIOGRAPHY (from the Gr. (3ios, life, and yp&4 , writing)

biography, contributed mainly to the See also:

• EDINBURGH

Edinburgh See also:

• REVIEW (Fr. revue, from revoir, to see again, Lat. re and videre)

Review, were afterwards published separately (1874) . In 1868 he was appointed a member of the royal commission on military education, under the See also:

• PRESIDENCY

presidency first of See also:

• EARL

Earl De See also:

• GREY, CHARLES GREY, 2ND EARL (1764-1845)
• GREY, HENRY GREY, 3RD EARL (1802-1894)
• GREY, LADY JANE (1537-1554)
• GREY, SIR EDWARD
• GREY, SIR GEORGE (1812–1898)

Grey and afterwards of See also:

• LORD
• LORD (O. Eng. hldford, i.e. hldfweard, the warder or keeper of bread, hlIf, loaf; the word is not represented in any other Teutonic language)
• LORD, JOHN (1810-1894)

Lord Dufferin, to whose recommendations were due the improved organization of the military colleges, and the development of military education in the See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal military stations of the British See also:

• ARMY
• ARMY (from Fr. armee, Lat. armata)

army . In 1871, on the conclusion of the Franco-German War, he was sent on a See also:

• SPECIAL

special See also:

• MISSION

mission to See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France and See also:

• GERMANY
• GERMANY (Ger. Deutschland)

Germany, and furnished to the See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government a See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of valuable reports on the different See also:

• SIEGE (0. Fr. sege, siege, mod. siege, seat, ultimately from sedere, to sit, cf. Class. Lat. obsidium, a siege)

siege operations which had been carried out during the war, especially the two sieges of See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris . These reports were published in a large See also:

• VOLUME

volume, which was issued confidentially . Never seeking regimental or staff preferment, Colonel Chesney never obtained any, but he held at the time of his See also:

• DEATH

death a unique position in the army, altogether apart from and above his actual See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place in it . He was consulted by officers of all grades on professional matters, and few have done more to raise the intellectual See also:

• STANDARD
• STANDARD, BATTLE OF THE

standard of the British officer . Constantly engaged in See also:

• LITERARY

literary pursuits, he was nevertheless laborious and exemplary in the See also:

• DISCHARGE (adapted from the O. Fr. discharge, modern decharge, from a med. Lat. discargare, to unload, dis- and earn care, to load, cf. " charge ")

discharge of his public duties, while managing also to devote a large part of his time to charitable and religious offices . He was abstemious to a See also:

• FAULT (Mid. Eng. faute, through the French, from the popular Latin use of fallere, to fail; the originallof the Latin being replaced in English in the 15th century)

fault; and, overwork of mind and See also:

• BODY

body telling at last on a frail constitution, he died after a See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short illness on the 19th of See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1876 .

He had become lieutenant-colonel in 1873, and at the time of his death he was commanding Royal Engineer of the See also:

• LONDON

London See also:

• DISTRICT

district . He was buried at Sandhurst .