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.

The speaker tonight will be Robert N. Fanelli, founding member of the Washington Crossing Revolutionary War Round Table.  His topic will be the Battle of Edge Hill which happened not far from our meeting place at MaGerk’s.  Throughout the Fall of 1777, the main American Army suffered a string of defeats at the hands of the British. Yet they remained in the field, threatening Philadelphia and limiting their enemy’s ability to draw supply from the countryside. Under pressure to defeat Washington’s troops decisively, General William Howe determined to launch one final attack before winter set in, hoping to draw the Americans into battle on his terms. Four days of maneuvering around the Whitemarsh area climaxed with a small battle along the Edge Hill ridge on December 7th, when Howe deployed much of his army against a harassing force of Americans whose object was to draw the British into a full scale assault against their fortified positions across the Sandy Run valley on Camp Hill. MaGerk’s tavern sits right in the middle of the Whitemarsh encampment, and the military actions forming the battle of Edge Hill took place within a 5-mile radius of where we will be meeting.

About Robert N. Fanelli:  Robert N. Fanelli: Robert N. Fanelli is a founding member of the Washington Crossing Revolutionary War Round Table and serves as its secretary. He is a Trustee of the Swan Historical Foundation, which owns the excellent collection of revolutionary war artifacts on display in the museum of the Washington Crossing State Park in Titusville, New Jersey. An active researcher, Robert has written a number of articles for the Journal of the American Revolution. He is particularly interested in Pennsylvania’s role in the American Revolution and has lived most of his life along the flanks of Edge Hill.