Major-General Sir John Frederick Maurice (1841–1912) was an English

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 soldier, born in London

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. He studied at Addiscombe College

Addiscombe

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 and Woolwich

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 Academy and entered the Royal Artillery

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 in 1861. He was private secretary to Sir Garnet Wolseley

Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley

Field Marshal Garnet Joseph Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley, KP, GCB, OM, GCMG, VD, PC was an Anglo-Irish officer in the British Army. He served in Burma, the Crimean War, the Indian Mutiny, China, Canada, and widely throughout Africa—including his Ashanti campaign and the Nile Expedition...

 in the Ashanti Campaign of 1873–1874; served in the Zulu War

Anglo-Zulu War

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 in 1880; was deputy assistant adjutant general of the Egyptian expedition in 1882; and was brevetted

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 colonel in 1885. In 1885–1892 Maurice was professor

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 of military history at the Staff College

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 and in 1895 he was promoted to major general. His reputation depends chiefly on his military writings, which include:

• Hostilities without Declaration of War (1883)
• Popular History of Ashanti Campaign (1874)
• a life of his father, John Frederick Denison Maurice (1884)
• The Balance of Military Power in Europe
  Europe
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  (1888)
• War (1891)
• National Defenses (1897)
• The Franco-German War, 1870–1871 (1900)
• Diary of Sir John Moore
  John Moore (British soldier)
  Lieutenant-General Sir John Moore, KB was a British soldier and General. He is best known for his military training reforms and for his death at the Battle of Corunna, in which his force was defeated but gained a tactical advantage over a French army under Marshal Soult during the Peninsular...
  
  (1904)
• History of the War in South Africa, an official account (four volumes, 1906–1910)