page_title: Whitworth Porter
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: Whitworth Porter / Works
caption_attribution_description: Drawing, Rorke's Drift Post (Battle of Rorke's Drift)
context_page_description: Whitworth Porter was an English Major General of the Royal Engineers, known also as a historical writer.
context_section_description: Porter published Life in the Trenches before Sebastopol, London, 1856. It was followed by A History of the Knights of Malta (2 vols. London, 1858); which he revised for an edition in 1883, and also abridged. His major work of later life was History of the Corps of Royal Engineers, which was published in two volumes in 1889. One of his last acts was to present the copyright of the work to the Corps. A continuation was added, through 11 volumes.
caption: Rorke's Drift Post, illustration from Whitworth Porter's History of the Corps of Royal Engineers, vol. II
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