serviceyears laterwork branch relations death_date birth_place battles birth_date rank article_title name
1861 -- 1912 writer academic british army frederick son -rrb- joan robinson -lrb- grand-daughter -rrb- maurice -lrb- father -rrb- frederick barton maurice -lrb- 1912 london anglo-ashanti wars zulu war 1841 major general john frederick maurice
 john frederick maurice
john frederick maurice

major-general sir john frederick maurice -lrb- 1841 -- 1912 -rrb- was an english soldier , born in london .
he studied at the royal india military college , addiscombe , and the royal military academy , woolwich , and entered the royal artillery in 1861 .
he was private secretary to sir garnet wolseley in the ashanti campaign of 1873 -- 1874 ; served in the zulu war in 1880 ; was deputy assistant adjutant general of the egyptian expedition in 1882 ; and was brevetted colonel in 1885 .
in 1885 -- 1892 maurice was professor of military history at the staff college and in 1895 he was promoted to major general .
later in his career he was commander of the woolwich district until 1902 .
his reputation depends chiefly on his military writings , which include : `` hostilities without declaration of war '' -lrb- 1883 -rrb- `` popular history of ashanti campaign '' -lrb- 1874 -rrb- a life of his father , john frederick denison maurice -lrb- 1884 -rrb- `` the balance of military power in europe '' -lrb- 1888 -rrb- `` war '' -lrb- 1891 -rrb- `` national defenses '' -lrb- 1897 -rrb- `` the franco-german war , 1870 -- 1871 '' -lrb- 1900 -rrb- `` diary of sir john moore '' -lrb- 1904 -rrb- `` history of the war in south africa '' , an official account -lrb- four volumes , 1906 -- 1910 -rrb-
