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2022 Revolutionary War Symposium: The World Turned Upside Down: The Impact on a Global Scale – Registration now open!

Posted on February 9, 2022 by Rob Orrison

The link to register for the Third annual Emerging Revolutionary War Symposium on September 24, 2022 is now live! To register for this year’s symposium visit: https://shop.alexandriava.gov/EventPurchase.aspx Emerging Revolutionary War is excited to continue our partnership with Gadsby’s Tavern Museum … Continue reading →

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A Connecticut Response to the Coercive Acts

Posted on May 19, 2020 by Phill Greenwalt

On December 16, 1773, Bostonians dumped 340 chests holding 92,000 pounds or 46 tons of East India Company tea into the harbor. Due to the distance news had to travel across the Atlantic Ocean and then for the gears of … Continue reading →

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Using the King’s Highway to Trap a King’s Army

Posted on October 20, 2019 by Phill Greenwalt

A few weeks ago, heading to the airport after the first Emerging Revolutionary War symposium, fellow ERW historian Rob Orrison made a pit stop in a residential neighborhood in Prince William County, Virginia. To the average traveler to the Ronald … Continue reading →

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Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban

Posted on August 27, 2019 by Phill Greenwalt

Sebastien Le Prestre de Vauban, Seigneur de Vauban, and finally Marquis de Vauban, as one of his biographies begins, is probably not a household name to many enthusiasts of American history. Especially since he died on March 30, 1707 and … Continue reading →

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“Our clocks are slow” L’Hermione, Lafayette and the Franco-American Alliance

Posted on June 24, 2015 by Rob Orrison

With the visit of the L’Hermione to the east coast of the United States this summer, there has been a heightened interest in the Franco-American alliance that won the American Revolution.  The French rebuilt the L’Hermione not only for its … Continue reading →

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