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Henry Coppée (1821–1895)

Coppée, Henry (ko-pā’). An American soldier, educator, and miscellaneous writer; born at Savannah, GA, Oct. 13, 1821; died on March 21, 1895. He served in the Mexican War; was president of Lehigh University (1866–75); professor of history there (1875–95). Besides various educational and military works he wrote: ‘Grant and his Campaigns’ (1866); ‘History of the Conquest of Spain by the Arab-Moors’ (2 vols., 1881).