The Art of War in the Middle Ages by Charles William Chadwick Oman

It is true that Napier had been through the conflict, but his history was flawed in many parts, incomplete and often biassed for personal reasons. Napier's History of the War in the Peninsula (1828-). Vaughan had served as a diplomat during the war and had collected a vast amount of paer on the subject. His study of the the Peninsular War came from his discovery of the Sir Charles Vaughan papers in the library of All Souls' College Oxford. He died at Oxford.įor a photo of Sir Charles Oman in 1926, held at the National Portrait Gallery, click here.įor what follows of this description of the writing of Oman's great work, I am deeply indebted to the preface (written by John Elting) to the recent Greenhill republication of the work (1995). He became an honorary fellow of New College in 1936 and received the honorary degrees of DCL (Oxford, 1926) and LL.D (Edinburgh, 1911 and Cambridge, 1927). Oman was a Conservative member of Parliament for the University of Oxford from 1919 to 1935, and was knighted in 1920. His academic career was interrupted by the First World War, during which he was employed by the government Press Bureau and Foreign Office.

He was also elected FBA that year, serving as President of the Royal Historical and Numismatic societies, and of the Royal Archaeological Institute. He was elected to the Chichele chair of modern history at Oxford in 1905. Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman (Janu– June 23, 1946) was born in India, the son of a British planter, and was educated at Oxford University, where he studied under William Stubbs.

The Art of War in the Middle Ages by Charles William Chadwick Oman