Robert Matteson Johnston

Robert Matteson Johnston (1867–1920) was an American historian and an important scholar of military history.

Biography Robert Matteson Johnston was born in Paris on April 11, 1867. He was educated at Eton College and Pembroke College, Cambridge. In 1917, he was appointed Chief of the Historical Section of the General Staff in the field with the rank of major in the United States Army.

He died in Cambridge, Massachusetts on January 28, 1920.

Scholarship The Roman Theocracy and the Republic, 1846–49 (1901) Napoleon: A Short Biography (1904) The Napoleonic Empire in Southern Italy and the Rise of the Secret Societies, 2 vols. (London: Macmillan, 1904). Vol. 1 Vol. 2 The Memoirs of Malakoff (1907) American Soldiers (1907) The French Revolution (1909) The Corsican (1910) The Holy Christian Church (1912) Mémoire de Marie Caroline, reine de Naples (1912) Bull Run (1913) First Reflections on the Campaign of 1918 (1920)