Society of the cincinnati. It is my very special pleasure tonight to introduce cole jones will be speaking to us this evening about his new book captives of liberty, prisoners of war and the politics of vengeance in the American Revolution. Which has just come out from the university of pennsylvania press. We have known professor jones since 2010 when he received a society of cincinnati scholars grant to conduct research in our library in support of his doctoral dissertation on the administration of enemy prisoners of war and revolutionary america. We have since followed his career and accomplishments with great interest and admiration. He received his ph. D. From Johns Hopkins in 2014, went on to hold post doctoral fellowships at the New York Historical society. Since 2015 he has been assistant professor of history at purdue university. Captives of liberty is an important and thought provoking book that examines how the founding generation of americans grappled with the problems of pr
Liberty, prisoners of war and the politics of vengeance in the American Revolution which has just come out from the university of pennsylvania press. We have known professor jones, cole, since 2010 when he received a society of the cincinnati scholars grant to conduct research in our library in support of his doctoral dissertation on enemy prisoners of war in revolutionary america. We have since followed his career and accomplishments with great interest and admiration. He received his ph. D. From Johns Hopkins in 2014, went on to hold post doctoral fellowships at the American Society and the New York Historical society and since 2015 he has been assistant professor of history at purdue university. Captives of liberty is an important and thought provoking book that examines how the founding generation of americans grappled with the problems of prisoner treatment during the eightyear conflict. American forces captured more than 17,000 british and allied germanic soldiers as well as thou
Of the company a regiment. On the morning of january 19 1919, he stationed at the bottom river 250 mile self guarding the line of the American Allied little conflict which ill be explaining. He was awakened that morning in shelves screamed upon the river. He got out of bed and joint men and demanding the lines and these forms were headed for hundreds of forms on skis, meringue tunics and heading straight within minutes they were upon these americans which were overwhelmed quickly and the fight for their lives to escape north for their Companies Headquarters and north which is where they were stationed. They put the flight and a handful of them got back to their Company Headquarters and thats just a lead in to the question of what americans were doing in russia in 1919. Im glad you asked that. Basically, there this western front but also and Eastern Front that the russians had been Holding Since the outset of the war in august of 1914. They tried to invade Missouri Lakes but on the west
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