History. Well, its such a pleasure to be able to introduce dr. Holly a mayor who is been a dear friend of mine for decades. Now. We are catching up a little bit on the terrace earlier trying to calculate the years, but its been it was back in the 1900s when we first met one another thats not amazing how that sounds now holly dr. Mayer is now a professor emerita from the mccannulty college in the graduate school of liberia arts at Duquesne University in my hometown of pittsburgh, pennsylvania where she taught for many decades she did i think two stints as chair of the History Department there after joining duquesne after receiving your phd at the college of william and mary. She also has served as the visiting heraldkay johnson chair of military history at the Us Army War College out in carlisle, pennsylvania at the Carlisle Barracks and is currently during this Academic Year at west point where shes serving as the charles bowl ewing visitor professor of history. She is also has been co
Welcome, everyone. My name is, philip mead. Im the chief historian and curator of this museum of the american revolution. So pleased to see you all tonight for fredricka bears. Presentation on the hessians. Scott stephenson. Sends his regrets he had intended be here tonight hosting but was unavailable. He though he may be watching from zoom so if youre out there, scott. Hello i wanted to call your attention tonight to important object that we actually have in this room. This is a fragment of a hessian miter cap from the fusileers on nip of hersey castle. It was discovered, among other fragments of these in the Delaware River in, the early 20th century, and some research by craig nanos and others has pretty well establish that it was lost when a troop transport went under in may of human march of 1778 in the Delaware River, and no one drowned all of the soldiers on board survived. But obviously a bunch of their things stayed in the river. They were dredged up, are on display. Other piec
Welcome, everyone. My name is, philip mead. Im the chief historian and curator of this museum of the american revolution. So pleased to see you all tonight for fredricka bears. Presentation on the hessians. Scott stephenson. Sends his regrets he had intended be here tonight hosting but was unavailable. He though he may be watching from zoom so if youre out there, scott. Hello i wanted to call your attention tonight to important object that we actually have in this room. This is a fragment of a hessian miter cap from the fusileers on nip of hersey castle. It was discovered, among other fragments of these in the Delaware River in, the early 20th century, and some research by craig nanos and others has pretty well establish that it was lost when a troop transport went under in may of human march of 1778 in the Delaware River, and no one drowned all of the soldiers on board survived. But obviously a bunch of their things stayed in the river. They were dredged up, are on display. Other piec
History. Well, its such a pleasure to be able to introduce dr. Holly a mayor who is been a dear friend of mine for decades. Now. We are catching up a little bit on the terrace earlier trying to calculate the years, but its been it was back in the 1900s when we first met one another thats not amazing how that sounds now holly dr. Mayer is now a professor emerita from the mccannulty college in the graduate school of liberia arts at Duquesne University in my hometown of pittsburgh, pennsylvania where she taught for many decades she did i think two stints as chair of the History Department there after joining duquesne after receiving your phd at the college of william and mary. She also has served as the visiting heraldkay johnson chair of military history at the Us Army War College out in carlisle, pennsylvania at the Carlisle Barracks and is currently during this Academic Year at west point where shes serving as the charles bowl ewing visitor professor of history. She is also has been co
Nip of hersey castle. It was discovered, among other fragments of these in the Delaware River in, the early 20th century, and some research by craig nanos and others has pretty well establish that it was lost when a troop transport went under in may of human march of 1778 in the Delaware River, and no one drowned all of the soldiers on board survived. But obviously a bunch of their things stayed in the river. They were dredged up, are on display. Other pieces of that same material are on display in the corps galleries. So tonight we have the privilege of welcoming fredricka bear, who is associate professor of history and division, head for arts and humanities at Pennsylvania State university, abington. Her research focuses on the experience of german speaking people in north from the revolutionary period to the late 19th century. Her publications prior to tonight include the monograph the trial of frederick avril language patriotism and citizenship ship in philadelphias german communit