 Besides his military battle service, Brackenbury was also a military correspondent with "The Times" for the Austrian Army where he was present at the 1866 Battle of Königgrätz.He was at the 1871 Battle of Le Mans during the Franco-Prussian War and was "Times" correspondent during the Russo-Turkish war of 1877.Brackenbury's other writing and editing works included "The Constitutional Forces of Great Britain", "Field Works