Next on American History tv, from the u. S. Naval academy in annapolis, maryland, for historians discuss the challenges of naval logistics for the Fledgling Navy during the revolutionary war. The scholars detail how the American Navy successfully cooperated with a much larger french navy to help defeat the british by 1781. This u. S. Naval Academy Program is about one hour and 20 minutes. Professor smith good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for being here today. This is a session on naval logistics and the American Revolution. My name is gene smith and i will be the chair. Today we have three papers and comments by dr. Glenn williams. Our first paper is by tom long, who is an assistant professor and coordinator of history in the department of George Washington university. He joined the u. S. Navy. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1970 in practice Corporate Banking law until he retired. Afterwards, he went back and got a phd in history from George Washington university. He teaches
Assures me that even though the only plan for 100 people, and i think we had 120 rsvps. We are delighted by the crowd and pleasantly surprised on this labor day. I was worried we would not even have 45 here. The 80 books we had available or down to the final eight. We appreciate your interest and being here. The hotel has assured me that even though the books will run out, we have plenty of food in the bar will remain open the matter what until 8 00. You can take full advantage of that. I would think some people here, but there are so many people here i dont know who to single out. I will point my parents, without whom i would not be here in the book would not be here. David and joanne tooley. [applause] my father produced this painting of the Willard Hotel as it would have appeared at the time of the peace conference in february 1861. When you have a chance, take a look at that. It is really wonderful. That it all the people think all the people from the organization to help with this
When it was created in 1844 the defenders of baltimore as they called themselveses, the old defenders were very interested in remembering what had happened and letting the country know that this was probably an important event that they felt actually saved the the union in 1814. We were very rich in resources to tell that story from 1812 to 1815. The gallery has hundreds of objects and documents and what we basically tell is a story of baltimore as sort of the epicenter of this story for the state of maryland, a growing, bustling port of 50,000 people and a lot of immigrants who didnt like the british very much and then it goes on to the reasons why the war happened and the command central area of everything in those days where the taverns and the newspapers were being developed and this was a big newspaper town, too, and then it goes on to the actual war itself and the maritime experiences and the the attack of the british in 1814 when they actually burned the capital and the the whit
The city’s Army National Guard unit, Co. F of the 215th Coast Artillery, was ordered to active duty in 1940, a full year before the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor.