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See also:HENDERSON, See also:GEORGE See also:FRANCIS See also:ROBERT (1854-1903) , See also:British soldier and military writer, was See also:born in See also:Jersey in 1854. Educated at See also:Leeds See also:Grammar School, of which his See also:father, after-wards See also:Dean of See also:Carlisle, was headmaster, he was See also:early attracted to the study of See also:history, and obtained a scholarship at St See also:John's See also:College, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford. But he soon See also:left the University for See also:Sandhurst," whence he obtained his first See also:commission in 1878. One See also:year 'later, after a few months' service in See also:India, he was promoted See also:lieutenant and returned to See also:England, and in 1882 he went ort active service with his See also:regiment, the See also:York and See also:Lancaster (65th/ 84th) to See also:Egypt. He was See also:present at Tell-el-Mahuta andKassassin, and at Tell-el-Kebir was the first See also:man of his regiment to enter the enemy's See also:works. His conduct attracted the See also:notice of See also:Sir See also:Garnet (afterwards See also:Lord) See also:Wolseley, and he received the 5th class of the Medjidieh See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order. His name was, further, noted for a See also:brevet-See also:majority, which he did not receive till he became See also:captain in 1886. During these years he had been quietly studying military See also:art and history at See also:Gibraltar, in Bermuda and in Nova See also:Scotia, in spite of the difficulties of See also:research, and in 1889 appeared
(anonymously) his first See also:work, The See also:Campaign of Fredericksburg. In the same year he became Instructor in See also:Tactics, Military See also:Law and See also:Administration at Sandhurst. From this See also:post he proceeded as See also:Professor of Military Art and History to the See also:Staff College (1892-1899), and there exercised a profound See also:influence on the younger See also:generation of See also:officers. His study on Spicheren had been begun some years before, and in 1898 appeared, as the result of eight years' work, his masterpiece, Stonewall See also:Jackson and the See also:American See also:Civil See also:War. In the See also:South See also:African War Lieutenant-See also:Colonel Henderson served with distinction on the staff of Lord See also:Roberts as Director of Intelligence. But overwork and See also:malaria See also:broke his See also:health, and he had to return See also:home, being eventually selected to write the See also:official history of the war. But failing health obliged him to go to Egypt, where he died at See also:Assuan on the 5th of See also:March 1903. He had completed the portion of the history of the South African VVar dealing with the events up to the commencement of hostilities, amounting to about a See also:volume, but the War See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
Office decided to suppress this, and the work was begun de nova and carried out by Sir F. See also:Maurice.
Various lectures and papers by Henderson were collected and published in 1905 by Captain See also:Malcolm, D.S.O., under the See also:title The See also:Science of War; to this collection a memoir was contributed by Lord Roberts. See also See also:Journal of the Royal See also:United Service Institution, vol. xlvii. No. 302.
End of Article: HENDERSON, GEORGE FRANCIS ROBERT (1854-1903)
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