ABSTRACT
A Directorate of Military Education was duly set up, and in 1858 the old Senior Department, now christened the Staff College and established at Camberley, was reorganized “to give the student the precision and strength of thought and that enlargement of mind which may prepare him for the higher and more extended duties he may be called upon to undertake.” Of all the British officers who recognized in the Crimean debacle the need for an established system of military education and training, none was more determined and well placed to revitalize and shape the future direction of British military thinking than Lieutenant-Colonel Patrick L. Mac-Dougall, Superintendent of Studies at the Royal Military College, who, in 1858, became the first Commandant of the newly opened Staff College. In England, perhaps the first British officer to give serious attention to the American campaigns as a profitable basis for military studies was Captain C. C. Chesney, Professor of Military History at Sandhurst.
