Glenn Williams sent the following:
Dennis M. Conrad, Ph.D., is associate editor for the Naval Documents of the American Revolution series
and has published an essay on John Paul Jones. He is currently the lead
historian for an electronic documentary edition on the US Navy in the
Spanish-American War and a book-length study of Josephus Daniels, Secretary of
the Navy during World War I. Prior to coming to the NHHC, Dr. Conrad was the
principal editor and project director for volumes 7 through 12 of the award-winning
Papers of General Nathanael Greene,
published by the University of North Carolina Press. Those volumes covered
Greene's time as Continental Army commander in the South. Dr. Conrad has
published several essays concerning Greene's campaigns in the South, which were
also the subject of his doctoral dissertation at Duke University.
See: http://xenophongroup.com/patriot/arrt/arrt_web.htm for more information.
The ARRT of DC meets at the Fort Myer (Arlington, VA) Officers Club on the first Wednesday of September, November, March and May, from 6:00 to 9:00 pm. For more information on attending the program, or the ARRT of DC in general, go to our web page at http://xenophongroup.com/patriot/arrt/arrtprgm.htm ; OR, send me an e-mail off-list to gfwilliams607@verizon.net; or call: (703) 360-9712; or write: ARRT DC, PO Box 137, Mount Vernon, VA 22121.
Those who live in, or plan to visit, the Washington, DC,
area are cordially invited to the next program of the American Revolution Round
Table of the District of Columbia on Wednesday evening, March 4, "A Sea Change: Naval
Warfare in the American Revolution during the spring of 1778, presented by
Dr. Dennis M. Conrad, a historian at the Naval History and Heritage
Command (NHHC).
"A Sea Change: Naval Warfare in the American Revolution during
the spring of 1778 " presents the spring of 1778 as a
time when the naval war changed fundamentally and dramatically. Developments he
will highlight include: the internationalization of the naval war, including
the sailing of the fleet of the Comte d'Estaing to America and the British
response; a re-direction in British strategy that included some retrenchment on
the North American mainland; a new aggressiveness on the part of the
Continental Navy that increasingly brought the war to European waters. This
presentation will also address American naval successes along the periphery of
North America, i.e., East Florida/Georgia, Spanish Louisiana/British West
Florida and Nova Scotia in North America and Africa; an increase in the numbers
and effectiveness of Loyalist privateers in American waters; the questioning of
the reputation of the Continental Navy and its officers by fellow Americans;
and questions of the allegiance and power of ordinary seamen in the Continental
Navy. Many of these changes, although vitally important in understanding the
American Revolution, have been virtually ignored in history books. This talk,
will use material found in the newly-published "Naval Documents of the American
Revolution," volume 12, that
provides a fresh and exciting perspective to anyone interested in the
Revolutionary War.
The ARRT of DC meets at the Fort Myer (Arlington, VA) Officers Club on the first Wednesday of September, November, March and May, from 6:00 to 9:00 pm. For more information on attending the program, or the ARRT of DC in general, go to our web page at http://xenophongroup.com/patriot/arrt/arrtprgm.htm ; OR, send me an e-mail off-list to gfwilliams607@verizon.net; or call: (703) 360-9712; or write: ARRT DC, PO Box 137, Mount Vernon, VA 22121.