Coppee, Henry
soldier, educator, college president, author, was born Oct. 13, 1821, in Savannah, Ga. He was a prominent educator, president of Lehigh university, 1866-75, and professor there until his death. During the Mexican war he served as an officer in the American army. His most important work is a History of the Conquest of Spain by the Arab Moors, which takes up the narrative at the period reached at the close of Irving's Mahomet and his Successors.
His other works comprise Elements of Logic; Elements of Rhetoric; Grant and his Campaigns; Manual of Battalion Drill; Evolutions of the Line; and Manual of Court Martial. He died in 1895.