Dennis Hart Mahan was an American military theorist, civil engineer and professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point from 1824 to 1871. He was the father of American naval historian a
Dennis Hart Mahan
Mahan, salted paper photo, circa 1856
Mahan in an autographed cabinet photo, circa 1870
Mahan Hall, United States Military Academy, 2003
Baron Antoine-Henri Jomini was a Swiss-French military officer who served as a general in French and later in Russian service, and one of the most celebrated writers on the Napoleonic art of war. Jomi
Dennis Hart Mahan
…after World War II. Mahan was largely responsible for disseminating ideas of European military theorists throughout the United States, particularly Antoine-Henri Jomini, and his lectures and writings were instrumental to U.S. actions in every conflict from the Mexican–American War and American Civil War to World War I…
Jomini in 1859, by Marc-Charles-Gabriel Gleyre
General Jomini's estate in Russia near Gagino.