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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Philip St. George Cooke (1809–1895)

Cooke, Philip St. George. A United States army officer and military writer; born near Leesburg, VA, June 13, 1809; died at Detroit, March 28, 1895. He also studied law and was admitted to practice. Besides works on tactics, he wrote: ‘Scenes and Adventures in the Army’ (1856); ‘Conquest of New Mexico and California’ (1878).