Sir William Francis Patrick Napier

(1785-1860)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Napier, William Francis Patrick, Sir, 1785-1860 NRA: Napier, Sir William Francis Patrick (1785-1860) Knight General and Historian DNB: Napier, Sir William Francis Patrick (1785-1860), army officer and writer LBT ID: WiNapie1860 VIAF ID: 25337800 LOC ID: n85300668	B/BAP: 1785-12-17 DIED: 1860-02-12
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British general; served in Spain and Portugal (1808-13); author of History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France, from the Year 1807 to the Year 1814, 6 vols (1828).
CORRESPONDENCE OF Sir William Francis Patrick Napier: William Napier to John Murray, 5 December [1827] in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) John Murray to William Napier, 18 January 1828 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Sir William Napier to Lady Morgan, 20 October 1849 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Sir William Napier to Lady Morgan, 26 January 1858 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863)