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Montgomery B. Gibbs

Best known for a lively late-19th-century history of Napoleon, this little-documented writer also turned to family history in print. The surviving record is slim, but the books suggest a taste for grand subjects and storytelling drawn from historical sources.

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Military Career of Napoleon the Great

Military Career of Napoleon the Great

by Montgomery B. Gibbs

About the author

Montgomery B. Gibbs is a hard author to pin down biographically, and the most reliable information easily available today comes from library and catalog records rather than personal histories. Those records identify him as the author of A Golden Legacy to the Gibbs Family in America (Chicago, 1893) and Military Career of Napoleon the Great (Chicago, 1895).

His best-known work appears to be Military Career of Napoleon the Great, a substantial volume on Napoleon’s campaigns, military leadership, and battlefield anecdotes. The book’s scope suggests an author interested in dramatic history and in presenting complex events in an accessible, narrative style.

Gibbs also wrote on genealogy, as seen in A Golden Legacy to the Gibbs Family in America. Because confirmed details about his life are scarce, it is safest to remember him through these surviving works: a writer of the 1890s whose published books moved between family legacy and sweeping military history.