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Virtual Author Series featuring Eugene Procknow
November 5, 2023 • ZoomThe Fort Ticonderoga Author Series features presentations by authors of books related to Colonial and Revolutionary War history. William Hunter, the son of a Revolutionary War British soldier, witnessed the terrors of combat and capture and penned the only surviving Revolutionary account written by a child of a British soldier. Remarkably, Hunter immigrated to America and became […]
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Virtual Author Series featuring Charles Mayhood
August 13, 2023 • Fort TiconderogaThe Fort Ticonderoga Author Series features presentations by authors of books related to Fort Ticonderoga’s history. In his book Québec Under Siege: French Eye-Witness Accounts from the Campaign of 1759, Charles Mayhood explores the events surrounding the siege and capitulation of the city, as recorded by 4 individuals in their journals and memoirs. These individuals include an artillery captain, a […]
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Virtual Author Series featuring David Price
January 14, 2024 • ZoomThe Fort Ticonderoga Author Series features presentations by authors of books related to Colonial and Revolutionary War history. The Battle of Harlem Heights is a largely unappreciated milestone in American military history. It was an encounter on upper Manhattan Island on September 16, 1776, that marked the first successful battlefield outcome achieved by George Washington’s troops in […]
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Virtual Author Series featuring Don Hagist
July 30, 2023 • ZoomThe Fort Ticonderoga Author Series features presentations by authors of books related to Fort Ticonderoga’s history. During the American Revolution, British light infantry and grenadier battalions figured prominently in almost every battle and campaign. They are routinely mentioned in campaign studies, usually with no context to explain what these battalions were. In an army that employed regiments as the […]
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Virtual Author Series featuring Andrew Wehrman
February 11, 2024 • VirtualThe Fort Ticonderoga Author Series features presentations by authors of books related to Colonial and Revolutionary War history. The Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution is a timely and fascinating account of the raucous public demand for smallpox inoculation during the American Revolution and the origin of vaccination in the United States. […]
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Virtual Author Series featuring Jack Kelly
March 10, 2024 • VirtualThe Fort Ticonderoga Author Series features presentations by authors of books related to Colonial and Revolutionary War history. In his new book God Save Benedict Arnold: The True Story of America’s Most Hated Man, author Jack Kelly brings the smell of gunpowder to every page in this riveting account of Benedict Arnold’s military career. Kelly’s account of […]
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Virtual Author Series featuring Jim Piecuch
April 14, 2024 • VirtualThe Fort Ticonderoga Author Series features presentations by authors of books related to Colonial and Revolutionary War history. In South Carolina Provincials: Loyalists in British Service during the American Revolution, historian Jim Piecuch provides the first comprehensive history of those South Carolinians who took up arms to assist the British during their attempt to quell the rebellion in […]
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Virtual Author Series featuring John Rees
June 11, 2023 • ZoomThe Fort Ticonderoga Author Series features presentations by authors of books related to Fort Ticonderoga’s history. The role of African Americans, most free but some enslaved, in the regiments of the Continental Army is not well-known; neither is the fact that relatively large numbers served in southern regiments and that the greatest number served alongside their white comrades in […]
