Thirtieth Annual War College of the Seven Years’ War

Fort Ticonderoga presents the Thirtieth Annual War College of the Seven Years’ War over three days, Friday-Sunday, May 15-17, 2026. Since its beginning in 1996, the War College has become a top venue for historians on subjects related to the Seven Years’ War in North America and beyond, drawing speakers and participants from across North America and Europe.

War College Schedule: 

Friday, May 15, 2026

• 5:30-6:30 Reception
• 7:00pm Opening Session—“Our trophies are nine pair of colours”: Ermsdorf & British Victory—Stuart Lilie, Fort Ticonderoga

Saturday, May 16, 2026

• 9:00am Welcome—Beth Hill, President and CEO, Fort Ticonderoga.
• 9:15-9:45am “They Are Holding Hands from Presqu’ Ile to LaChine”: Logistics and the French Occupation of Western Pennsylvania—Robert Emerson, Old Fort Niagara
• 10:00-10:30am Militant Marian Miracles in the Early Modern French Atlantic—Dr. Thomas Lecaque, Grand View University
• 10:45-11:15am Colours vs Drapeaux: Regimental Flags of the Armies in the French and Indian War—Steven Hill, author
• 11:30am-1:45pm Lunch Break (Box lunch from America’s Fort Café included).
• 1:00-1:30pm Book Signing at the Museum Store in the Log House.
• 2:00-2:30pm “It is a decisive blow”: The Northern Circars Campaign of 1758-1759 and the Anglo-French Rivalry in South Asia—Mason Watson, US Army Center for Military History
• 2:45-3:15pm The Birth of British Mediterranean Strategy: The Capture of Belle Isle, June 1761—Steve Erskine, Green Howards Museum (United Kingdom)
• 3:30-5:00pm Fort Ticonderoga Museum, King’s Garden, and Museum Store open.
• 5:00pm Dinner at America’s Fort Café (pre-registration only).

Sunday, May 17, 2026

•  9:00-9:30am “If you had paid attention you would know”: Gender, Politics, and Power in the Anglo-Cherokee War—Emily Dixon Magness, College of William & Mary
• 9:45-10:15am Boys will be Boys: Reflecting on Pre-Revolutionary Frontier Rebellion 250 Years On—Michael E. Carter, Kean University
• 10:30-11:00am Old Collections, Young Archaeologists: Crown Point Archaeological Field-School’s Discoveries from the 1969 R.W. Robbins Excavation—Matthew O’Leary & Christopher DeCorse, Syracuse University
• 11:15-11:45am Designs for Empire: Architecture and Governance after the Seven Years’ War—Christian J. Koot, Towson University
• 12:00pm Lunch (Box lunch from America’s Fort Café included).