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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 ....
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 frien ....
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Ive been subconsciously preparing this lecture for 33 years. The subject im about to delve into is so near and dear that the thought of turning it into a talk wouldnt have occurred to me without a prompt. So id like to begin with some extraordinarily sincere thank yous to matt sick and a better phil mead and Scott Stephenson here at the museum of the American Revolution for approaching me with a request for a lecture on this subject for this particular audience. I think i may owe you all appear. I was honored by your invitation, and im very, very excited to be here. So how about a quick round of applause for the entire staff of moar, including their hospital staff . Our wonderful hosts for putting this all together. And. Scott, im going to go on the record and say that your scones are tastier than ron hursts. So ill take is there anyone amongst us who has not heard of ....
President obama it is visiting ia in the wake of the ukraine crisis. Ownews, bloomberg thank you for joining us. How is Obama Meeting . What are we looking for in that . A kind of reassurances . What kind of reassurances . They are looking for measures ,hat were required by nato increased air controls and increased presence in the deployment of us. Those measures are expected to be basically extended for the longterm. That is what the leaders are looking for. How concerned are estonians and other leaders about what russia does next . I have to say they are really concerned. Theyre basically at the existential worry now. We have to remember that ever since the war in georgia between russia and georgia in 2008, there were concerns that have been increasing in the baltics. Terroristses back to in soviet oppression. That is obviously the background of this. What about the role of russia minorities in this . Places like estonia has larg ....