George Chesney

General
Sir George Chesney
KCB CSI CIE
Personal details
Born30 April 1830
Tiverton, Devon, England
Died31 March 1895(1895-03-31) (aged 64)
London, England
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Sir George Tomkyns Chesney KCB CSI CIE (30 April 1830 – 31 March 1895) was a British Army general, politician, and writer of fiction. He is remembered as the author of the novella The Battle of Dorking (1871), a founding work in the genre of invasion literature.

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