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
Homework. Cox connect to compete. Caucus, along with these television companies, support cspan 2 as a public service. Welcome everyone. My name is philip meade and i am the chief historian and creator of this museum of the American Revolution. So pleased to see you all tonight for frederick oh bears presentation on Scott Stevenson sends his regrets, he had intended to be here tonight holding but was unavailable that he may be watching from zoom so if you are out there hello. I wanted to call your attention tonight to unimportant object that we actually have in this room and this is a fragment of a hessian miter cap from the fuselage ears of two has a castle, it was discovered among other fragments of these caps in the Delaware River in the early 20th century year and some Historical Research by craig manaus and others has pretty well established that it was lost when a troop transport went under in may of excuse me, march of the Delaware River and may the soldiers on board survived, bu
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
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
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 community. 1792 1830, which wa