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Montgomery B. Gibbs

A late-19th-century writer remembered for lively historical and genealogical works, he wrote about both Napoleon Bonaparte’s campaigns and the Gibbs family’s roots in America. His surviving books suggest a taste for big subjects, from military history to family legacy.

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Military Career of Napoleon the Great An Account of the Remarkable Campaigns of the "Man of Destiny"; Authentic Anecdotes of the Battlefield as Told by the Famous Marshals and Generals of the First Empire

Military Career of Napoleon the Great An Account of the Remarkable Campaigns of the "Man of Destiny"; Authentic Anecdotes of the Battlefield as Told by the Famous Marshals and Generals of the First Empire

by Montgomery B. Gibbs

About the author

Montgomery B. Gibbs was an American author active in the 1890s. Verified records from library and book catalogs connect him to A Golden Legacy to the Gibbs Family in America (1893), a family history, and Military Career of Napoleon the Great (1895), a substantial narrative of Napoleon’s campaigns.

His work shows an interest in making history readable for general audiences. One book looks closely at genealogy and family heritage, while the other turns to European military history and the dramatic life of Napoleon, suggesting a writer comfortable moving between personal legacy and sweeping historical storytelling.

Reliable biographical details about Gibbs himself appear to be scarce in the sources available here, so much of what can be said with confidence comes from his published books rather than from a fuller personal record. Even so, those books leave the impression of an industrious late-19th-century author drawn to subjects with scale, character, and a strong sense of the past.