Its my pleasure to welcome today a professor Gregory Irwin of the revolution through world war ii. Its one of the great advantages of being in philadelphia that we can be close neighbors to professor irwin, whose work on the british army ands the American Revolution is extensive and nuanced and always inspiring of our exhibits and publications. In the development of our core exhibition, professor irwin played a crucial role in the display of the story of enslaved runaways weighing the promise of the proclamation announced by general clinton in 17 which offered somewhat vaguely protection and freedom of run aways who made their way to the british lines through consultation with a number of historians particularly of American History in this period. It became a really imperative that we do two very challenging, often seemingly contradictory things with showing and people facing this question of whether to trust the british on this promise. One was to demonstrate their agency to capture t
Military historian Gregory Erwin talks about challenges the british army faced in adapting to north american terrain and battle tactics during the revolutionary war. The museum of the American Revolution, Pritzker Museum and the richard vann has foundation cohosts this event as part of a threeday international conference. My name is philip mead, director of Curatorial Affairs on the American Revolution, and it is my pleasure to welcome today to welcome to welcome today ,resident Gregory Urwin professor of American History from the revolution through world war ii. A longtimerwin is friend of this museum project. Thene of it is one of great advantages of being in philadelphia, that we can be close neighbors to the professor, whose work on the british army in the American Revolution is extensive and always inspiring of our exhibits and publications , and the development of our core exhibition. Professor urwin played a crucial role in the display of the story weighinged runways, the promis
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Housekeeping notes before we begin. We will have 15 minutes of question and answer after each presentation. So please line up behind the microphone to ask your questions for those here in person and for those on zoom. Please type your questions in the chat and we will ask them in real life. We do have author books for sale downstairs, so if you would like any of our books, our authors to sign your book, please visit with them over the course of the day. And then lunch is on your own and there are a ton of options here in oldtown. So if you need some recommendation, please look for our Historic Alexandria staff who will be happy to point you in the right direction. So with that, please welcome Phil Greenawalt with emerging revolutionary war to introduce our first speaker. Good morning. How . We are so grateful to have norm the mayors with us here today. Norm is a Professor Emeritus Providence College and providence, rhode island. Hes the author of the guide of the American Revolutionary