Thirteenth Annual War College of the Seven Years’ War -
Commemorating the 250th Anniversary of the French & Indian War
At Fort Ticonderoga
April 26 & 27, 2008
In-kind support from Stone House Motel
& Motor Lodge and Best Western Inn and Suites of Ticonderoga.
This year’s War College focuses on the
events of 1758: the Battle of Carillon, the Forbes Campaign against Fort
Duquesne, and the British capture of Fortress Louisbourg.
Note the new date!
This year’s War College will be held
April 26 & 27, 2008, in the new Deborah Clarke Mars Education
Center. Nearly 200 participants—people with a deep interest in 18th-century
military history—join us each year for this two-day seminar. The War
College focuses on the military history of North American in the Seven
Years’ War. Leading authorities and new scholars on the period present
their latest findings in a series of lectures. The War College provides
participants with an opportunity to listen to and interact with the
presenters in an informal, relaxed atmosphere. Participation is limited
and is by pre-registration only. The event sells out each year, so
please don’t wait to call and reserve your place!
Members of the 2008 Faculty
Dr. Fred
Anderson teaches at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and
is the author of several books on the French & Indian War, including
Crucible of War, A People's Army, and The War That Made
America. He will provide an overview of the crucial year 1758.
Dr. Stephen Brumwell, based in
Amsterdam, is the author of Redcoats, White Devil, and Paths
of Glory: The Life and Death of General James Wolfe. His talk
discusses the impact, and fate, of two very different British officers
who played pivotal roles in North America in 1758—Brigadiers James
Wolfe and George Augustus, Viscount Howe.
Dr. Jay Cassel teaches at
Wilfrid Laurier University and is the author of the forthcoming A New
World Army, French Forces in Colonial Canada. Lt. Col.Ian
McCulloch is the former Commanding Officer of the Black Watch (RHR)
of Canada and Deputy Director of History & Heritage for the Canadian
Forces. He is currently the Army Planner on the staff of the Canadian
Forces College in Toronto. Their joint, two-part session will examine
the nature and operation of command in the Franco-Canadian and
British-American armies that fought the 1758 Battle of Carillon
(Ticonderoga), with special emphasis on the generals and key officers.
They will take turns considering the respective armies, their
commanders, and their perceived missions; then examine logistical and
operational problems facing any army in colonial North America; and,
finally, analyze both armies' performance during the battle itself, from
approach through the engagement to the retreat.
Christopher Fox is the Curator
of Collections and Mark Turdo is the Assistant Curator at Fort
Ticonderoga. Their presentation on Friday evening focuses on items in
the Fort Ticonderoga collection related to the 1758 campaign.
André Gousse is the Head of
Interpretive Products for Parcs Canada and a long-time reenactor.
Victories at Monongahela, Oswego, and Ticonderoga were celebrated by
Montcalm's soldiers and officers with songs, continuing a tradition that
went back to the siege of Quebec by Phipps in 1690. Gousse will share
some of these songs with attendees on Saturday evening.
Dr. Sara Gronim is an assistant
professor of history at Long Island University who has published widely
on the history of colonial science, medicine, and technology, and is the
author of Everyday Nature: Knowledge of the Natural World in Colonial
New York. She will examine the political significance of geography
in colonial New York.
Chris Jedrey, the author of The
World of John Cleaveland, is a partner in McDermott Will &
Emery, an international law firm. His presentation focuses on how the
diary of the Rev. John Cleaveland, and the letters between John and his
wife Mary, reflect the rural and religious perspective on imperial
warfare.
Dr. R. Scott Stephenson, a
Pittsburgh native and Fort Ticonderoga trustee, was recently curator of
the traveling exhibition "Clash of Empires: the British, French,
and Indian War, 1754-1763." He will explore the Forbes Expedition
against Fort Duquesne in 1758.
Nicholas Westbrook is the
Executive Director of Fort Ticonder-oga. History is contingency, not
inevitability. He will discuss eight points at which the outcome of the
Battle of Carillon might of gone differently—or indeed never happened!
Registration Fees
