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Celebrating 23 Years (2001-2024)

May 20, 2024May 20, 2024

June 24, 2024 – Misconceptions about Washington at Brandywine

Come early and enjoy dinner at MaGerks before our meeting!!

Live Meeting at MaGerks Fort Washington – 582 S. Bethlehem Pike, Fort Washington, PA 19034

We recommend that you get here before 6:30pm to order your food and drinks before the lecture.  Bring $1 or $5 cash for our used book raffle and you could win a Revolutionary War book!!  Program begins around 7:15pm, Lecture around 7:30pm.

Notwithstanding modern claims to the contrary, George Washington enjoyed more tactical victories against the Crown Forces on battlefields he commanded than suffered defeats. One of those losses deeply studied and analyzed is the Battle of Brandywine which is usually attributed to Washington’s failing at intelligence gathering, and passive response to General Howe’s oft-repeated flank march upon the American right. The June speaker, Gary Ecelbarger, the author of George Washington’s Momentous Year: Twelved Months that Transformed the Revolution, Vol. I: The Philadelphia Campaign, July to December 1777, will demonstrate that Washington not only anticipated Howe’s flank movement, but he reacted decisively to it. So why did the Americans lose this battle?
Gary will also be promoting his recently released book, George Washington’s Momentous Year: Twelve Months that Transformed the Revolution, Vol. I: The Philadelphia Campaign, July to December 1777.
Book Purchase: To purchase this book please click on this link: George Washington’s Momentous Year: Twelve Months that Transformed the Revolution, Vol. I: The Philadelphia Campaign, July to December 1777 (Volume 1): Ecelbarger, Gary: 9781594164224: Amazon.com: Books

About Gary Ecelbarger: Gary is an award-winning author of nine books and two dozen articles, monographs, and essays relating to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century history.  His Civil War books include The Day Dixie Died: The Battle of Atlanta, The Great Comeback: How Abraham Lincoln Beat the Odds to Win the 1860 Republican Nomination, Black Jack Logan: An Extraordinary Life in Peace and War, Three Days in the Shenandoah: Stonewall Jackson at Front Royal and Winchester, Slaughter at the Chapel: The Battle of Ezra Church, 1864, and Frederick W. Lander: The Great Natural American Soldier,

 

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