Statesmen at War: The Strategy of Overthrow, 1798-1799
(Contents: Part 1, Statecraft and Strategy: The Making of ...)
Contents: Part 1, Statecraft and Strategy: The Making of the Coalition, October 1797-March 1799; The Search for a Strategy, March - June 1799; Mounting the Invasion, April-August 1799.
Part 2, The Reckoning: Beach-Head, August-September 1799; Break-out and Containment, September-October 1799.
Includes 14 maps.
Includes Bibliography and Index.
Piers Gerald Mackesy, British historian, educator. Member council National Army Museum, London, since 1983. Served to lieutenant British Army, 1943-1947, European Theatre of Operations. Fellow Royal History Society, British Academy; member Society for Army History Research (member executive council since 1985), Institute for Early American History (member executive council 1970-1973).
Background
Piers Mackesy was born in Cults, near Aberdeen in Scotland, the son of Major-General Pierse Joseph Mackesy and Leonora Cook. Growing up in an army family, he followed his father"s assignments and lived on a number of army posts, including Quetta, Chatham, and Borden.
Education
He was educated at Wellington College and was commissioned into the Royal Scots Greys in 1944, serving until 1947. As a graduate student, he studied for his Doctorate.Phil.
Career
Subsequently, he became a scholar of Christ Church, Oxford, obtaining his bachelor"s degree in 1950. degree at Oriel College, Oxford, where he wrote his thesis on British Strategy in the Mediterranean, 1803–1810. Upon completion of his doctorate, Mackey was appointed Harkness Fellow at Harvard University, and in the following year he was appointed tutor in modern history and Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford in 1954, remaining there until he retired in 1988. While at Pembroke, he became senior tutor and vicegerent of the College.
Foreign many years, he taught the special subject in military history at Oxford with Professor North. H. Gibbs.
This course of study involved using the War of the Second Coalition as a case study for examining the theories of Carl von Clausewitz. He was an Emeritus Fellow of Pembroke College from 1988 until his death in 2014.
Mackesy was visiting fellow, Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (1961–1962), visiting professor, California Institute of Technology (1966), Bland-Lee Lecturer at Clark University, the Naval War College, the United States. Military Academy, and Northeastern University. In 1978 the University of Oxford awarded Mackesy the degree of Doctor of Literature
In 1988 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.
Member council National Army Museum, London, since 1983. Served to lieutenant British Army, 1943-1947, European Theatre of Operations. Fellow Royal History Society, British Academy.
Member Society for Army History Research (member executive council since 1985), Institute for Early American History (member executive council 1970-1973).
Interests
Riding.
Connections
Son of Pierse Joseph and Leonora Dorothy (Cook) M. Previous marriage Sarah Katharine Davies. Children: William, Catherine, Serena.