Dr Gregory
Fremont-Barnes
BA MA
Appointment: Senior Lecturer, Department of War Studies, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
Contact Details
Department of War Studies, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Camberley, Surrey GU15 4PQ
Tel. +44 (0)1276 412388
Principal research interests
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Insurgency and Counterinsurgency since 1900
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Waterloo and the Hundred Days Campaign, 1815
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The Falklands War, 1982
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The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1792-1815, particularly Wellington’s
campaigns
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Victorian warfare, 1837-1902, particularly the Anglo-Afghan wars, the Crimean War, the
Indian Mutiny and the Boer War
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The Royal Navy in the age of fighting sail, 1650-1850, particularly during Nelson’s time
Principal publications
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Books (sole author)
Waterloo 1815: The British Army’s Day of Destiny (The History Press, Stroud, 2014)
Goose Green 1982 (Spellmount, Stroud, 2013)
The Soviet-Afghan War, 1979-89 (Osprey Publishing, Oxford, 2012)
Falklands 1982: Ground Operations in the South Atlantic (Osprey, Oxford, 2012)
Waterloo 1815 (Spellmount, Stroud, 2012)
The Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-46 (Osprey, Oxford, 2011)
Nile 1798: Nelson’s First Great Victory (Osprey, Oxford, 2011)
Napoleon Bonaparte (Osprey, Oxford, 2010)
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The Anglo-Afghan Wars, 1839-1919 (Osprey, Oxford, 2009)
Who Dares Wins: The SAS and the Iranian Embassy Siege, 1980 (Osprey, Oxford, 2009)
Nelson’s Officers and Midshipmen (Osprey, Oxford, 2009)
Victory vs Redoutable: Ships of the Line at Trafalgar 1805 (Osprey, Oxford, 2008)
American Bomber Crewman, 1941-45 (Osprey, Oxford, 2008)
The Royal Navy, 1793-1815 (Osprey, Oxford, 2007)
The Indian Mutiny, 1857-58 (Osprey, Oxford, 2007)
The Wars of the Barbary Pirates: From the Shores of Tripoli – The Rise of the U.S. Navy and
Marines (Osprey, Oxford, 2006)
Trafalgar 1805: Nelson’s Crowning Triumph (Osprey, Oxford, 2005)
Nelson’s Sailors (Osprey, Oxford, 2005)
The Boer War, 1899-1902 (Osprey, Oxford, 2003)
The Peninsular War, 1807-1814 (Osprey, Oxford, 2002)
The Fall of the French Empire, 1813-1815 (Osprey, Oxford, 2002)
The French Revolutionary Wars (Osprey, Oxford, 2001)
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Books (co-author)
The Napoleonic Wars: The Rise and Fall of an Empire (with Todd Fisher) (Osprey, Oxford, 2004)
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Books (sole editor)
A History of Counterinsurgency. 2 vols. (Praeger, Santa Barbara, 2015)
Armies of the Napoleonic Wars (Pen & Sword, Barnsley, UK, 2011)
Encyclopedia of the Age of Political Revolutions and New Ideologies, 1760-1815. 2 vols.
(Greenwood, Westport, CT, 2007)
The Encyclopedia of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. 3 vols. (ABC-CLIO, Santa
Barbara, CA, 2006)
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Books (co-editor)
The Encyclopedia of the American Revolutionary War (with Richard Ryerson). 5 vols. (ABC-CLIO,
Santa Barbara, 2006)
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Other published work
Women and War: A Historical Encyclopedia from Antiquity to the Present (ABC-CLIO, Santa
Barbara, 2005), entry on Florence Nightingale
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The Home Front Encyclopedia: the United States, Britain, and Canada in World Wars I & II (ABCCLIO, Santa Barbara, 2006), entries on:
Kitchener, Horatio Herbert, Lord; Paris Peace Conference
The Encyclopedia of the Age of Imperialism (Greenwood, Westport, CT, 2007), entries on:
Afrikaners; Anglo-Afghan Wars; Aix-la-Chapelle, Congress of; Alexander I, Tsar; Amiens, Treaty
of; Anglo-American War (1812-15); Austerlitz, Battle of; Balaklava, Battle of; Balance of Power;
Blücher, Gebhard von; Boer Wars; Bonaparte, Joseph; Bonaparte, Louis; Boxer Insurrection;
Burke, Edmund; Canning, George; Chaumont, Treaty of; Clausewitz, Karl von; Congress System;
Fox, Charles James; George III, King; George IV, King; Holy Alliance; Indian Mutiny; Inkerman,
Battle of; Kitchener, Horatio Herbert, Lord; Leipzig, Battle of; Liberation, War of German (1813);
Mafeking, Siege of; Marmont, Auguste; Metternich, Prince Klemens von; Navarino, Battle of; Ney,
Michel; Nile, Battle of the; Omdurman, Battle of; Pitt, William; Quadruple Alliance; Quatre Bras,
Battle of; Scharnhorst, Gerhard Johann von; Sevastopol, Siege of; Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles
Maurice de; Ulm, Capitulation at; Vienna, Congress of; Wagram, Battle of; Wars of the Coalitions
(1792-1815); Waterloo, Battle of; Wellesley, Richard Colley; Wellington, Duke of; Zulu War
Media experience
 Consultant for a television programme on a Boer resistance leader (2010)
 Consultant for a film project on the SAS in World War II (2010)
 Consultant for a television project on the history of military logistics (2011)
 Interview for Falkland Islands Radio on the conflict of 1982 (2012)
 Interview for BBC television on the Falklands War (2012)
Battlefield Study expertise
Dr Fremont-Barnes has extensive experience in planning and delivering battlefield tours/battlefield
studies/staff rides for military audiences in the following areas:
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The Falklands War, 1982, including San Carlos Water and Ajax Bay, Goose Green, Mount
Harriet, Two Sisters, Mount Longdon, Mount Tumbledown, Wireless Ridge, Fitzroy, Teal
Inlet and Yorke Bay
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Peninsular War, 1808-14: Numerous sites across Spain and Portugal, including
Somosierra, Mondego Bay, Roliça, Vimeiro, Oporto, Busaco, the Lines of Torres Vedras,
Fuentes de Oñoro, Almeida, Ciudad Rodrigo, Salamanca and Vitoria
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The Waterloo Campaign, 1815: Waterloo battlefield in Belgium
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The Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-46: Culloden and its environs in the Scottish Highlands
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Normandy Campaign, 1944, including the beaches and numerous sites inland in both the
American and British sectors
Defence Diplomacy
Dr Fremont-Barnes has been involved in defence diplomacy visits to various countries in Europe,
Africa, South America and the Middle East, mostly to deliver lectures and training to military
personnel in various countries.
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