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HENRY COPPEE (1821-1895)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 102 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY See also:COPPEE (1821-1895)  , See also:American educationalist and author, was See also:born in See also:Savannah, See also:Georgia, on the 13th of See also:October 1821, of a See also:French See also:family formerly settled in See also:Haiti . He studied at Yale for two years, worked as a See also:civil engineer, graduated at See also:West Point in 1845, served in the Mexican See also:War as a See also:lieutenant and was breveted See also:captain for gallantry at Contreras and Churubusco, was See also:professor of See also:English at West Point from 1850 to 1855 (when he resigned from the See also:army), was professor of English literature and See also:history in the University of See also:Pennsylvania 1855-1866, and on the 1st of See also:April 1866 was chosen first See also:president of Lehigh University . In 1875 he was succeeded by See also:John McD . Leavitt and became professor of history and English literature, but was president See also:pro tem. from the See also:death of See also:Robert A . Lamberton (b . 1824) in See also:September 1893 to his own death in See also:Bethlehem on the 22nd of See also:March 1895 . He published elementary See also:text-books of See also:logic (1857), of See also:rhetoric (1859), and of English literature (1872); various manuals of See also:drill; See also:Grant, a Military See also:Biography (,866); See also:General See also:Thomas (1893), in the " See also:Great Commanders " See also:Series; History of the See also:Conquest of See also:Spain by the Arab-See also:Moors (1881); and in 1862 a See also:translation of See also:Marmont's Esprit See also:des institutions militaires, besides editing the See also:Comte de See also:Paris's Civil War in See also:America .

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