7 Years' War Speaker Series: "Detritus of Defeat: Dunbar’s Camp & Anticlimax of Braddock's Campaign"
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Seven Years' War Speaker Series: "The Detritus of Defeat: Dunbar’s Camp and the Anticlimax of Braddock’s Campaign" with Josh Freeman
The Seven Years’ War Speaker Series is a bi-monthly lecture program featuring historians and experts on topics relating to the Seven Years’ War – a global war involving most of the European great powers, fought primarily in Europe and the Americas between 1756-1763.
While the Battle of the Monongahela is often seen as the end of General Edward Braddock’s campaign against Fort Duquesne in 1755, British efforts actually met their final demise on a rocky ridge some fifty miles south of the battlefield. Here, at the camp of the rear detachment commanded by Colonel Thomas Dunbar, the final nail in the coffin was sunk into the once promising campaign.
Cost: Regular museum admission
About the Speaker:
Joshua S. Freeman is a military historian at the U.S. Army Center of Military History (CMH) at Fort McNair, Washington, D.C. An expert on American military history from the colonial period to 1865, Josh teaches military history at CMH and leads the Center’s staff ride program. A native of Ligonier, PA, Josh’s hometown history fostered a passion for French and Indian War history from an early age. Previous to joining CMH, Josh spent nearly a decade working for the National Park Service, many of those years at Fort Necessity National Battlefield.
The Seven Years’ War Speaker Series is a bi-monthly lecture program featuring historians and experts on topics relating to the Seven Years’ War – a global war involving most of the European great powers, fought primarily in Europe and the Americas between 1756-1763.
While the Battle of the Monongahela is often seen as the end of General Edward Braddock’s campaign against Fort Duquesne in 1755, British efforts actually met their final demise on a rocky ridge some fifty miles south of the battlefield. Here, at the camp of the rear detachment commanded by Colonel Thomas Dunbar, the final nail in the coffin was sunk into the once promising campaign.
Cost: Regular museum admission
About the Speaker:
Joshua S. Freeman is a military historian at the U.S. Army Center of Military History (CMH) at Fort McNair, Washington, D.C. An expert on American military history from the colonial period to 1865, Josh teaches military history at CMH and leads the Center’s staff ride program. A native of Ligonier, PA, Josh’s hometown history fostered a passion for French and Indian War history from an early age. Previous to joining CMH, Josh spent nearly a decade working for the National Park Service, many of those years at Fort Necessity National Battlefield.
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