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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.  2001-07.
 
Napier, Sir William Francis Patrick
 
 
1785–1860, British general and historian; brother of Sir Charles James Napier. He served in the Peninsular War and wrote a famous and still authoritative History of the War in the Peninsula (6 vol., 1828–40).
 
 
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