Author: A. Hilliard Atteridge

Andrew Hilliard Atteridge (1852–1941) was an Anglo-Irish journalist and war correspondent, born in Liverpool, who spent his working life reporting and writing on armies, campaigns and military affairs for the British press. He contributed articles to the ninth edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and to the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia. His popular military histories include The Wars of the 'Nineties (1899), Napoleon's Brothers and a life of Napoleon's Marshal Ney. The title page of this book carries the byline John Richard Hale, a name Project Gutenberg lists as an alias of Atteridge.