The New International Encyclopædia/Chesney, Charles Cornwallis

CHESNEY, chĕs′nĭ, Charles Cornwallis (1826-76). A British military engineer and critic. He was a brevet colonel in the British Royal Engineers, and for many years was professor of military history at the Staff College at Sandhurst. He first attracted general attention by A Military View of Recent Campaigns in Virginia and Maryland (1863), and in 1868 published his Waterloo Lectures, perhaps his ablest work. He also published The Military Resources of Prussia and France (1870), and Essays in Modern Military Biography (1874). The latter contains valuable critical estimates of the military careers of Generals U. S. Grant and R. E. Lee, and of ‘Chinese’ Gordon.