With piracy on the rise and fast becoming a serious global security issue, Rear Admiral Terry McKnight took command of a new multi-national task force in 2009 to combat piracy in the Gulf of Aden. As task force commander, he directed operations that disrupted several hijackings and resulted in the capture of sixteen Somali pirates.
A lecture with David J. Ulbrich, Ph.D. During the Great Depression, the U.S. Marine Corps fell to less than 18,000 men and its budgets slipped to $20 million in 1936. At this low point, Thomas Holcomb became Marine Corps Commandant. Over the next seven years, he directed the Corps’ incredible growth to 385,000 Marines with
Western Front Association - East Coast is hosting an exciting day-long program featuring displays, discussions and the following World War I history presentations: “American Lions: The 332nd Infantry Regiment in Italy in World War I” : Robert J. Dalessandro, Chief of the US Army’s Center of Military History, presents the story of the American Doughboys
As part of the United States Navy Memorial’s Authors on Deck book lecture series, author Chipp Reid will present his latest work, Intrepid Sailors: The Legacy of Preble’s Boys and the Tripoli Campaign. (Naval Institute Press; October 9, 2012). Intrepid Sailors tells the story of Commodore Edward Preble and the legendary efforts of “Preble’s Boys”
Round about the Earth: Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit with author Joyce Chaplin For almost five hundred years, people have been finding ways to circle the Earth-by sail, steam, or liquid fuel; by cycling, driving, flying, going into orbit, even by using their own bodily power. The story begins with the first centuries of circumnavigation,
Journalist and historian Chipp Reid discusses one of the greatest sea stories in the history of the U.S Navy. Under Commodore Edward Preble, the Navy came of age fighting the scourge of the time, the infamous Barbary Pirates, who had declared war on the United States in 1801. The exploits of the officers and sailors
The U.S. Navy's campaign against the Barbary pirates is one of the greatest sea stories in naval history. This book tells the story of Commodore Edward Preble and the legendary efforts of "Preble's Boys" to subdue the pirate leader of Tripoli, who declared war on the United States in 1801. Chipp Reid uses the words
With author Thomas Boghardt The definitive account of Germany’s plot to keep the U.S. out of the European war by helping Mexico re-conquer the American southwest, and the British counter-intelligence coup that brought the startling news to the American public. For more information on the National Museum of the United States Navy: http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/org8-1.htm
Coffee is at 10:30 AM. Presentation begins at 11:00 AM. January 2013 marks 115 years since the battleship Maine was sent to Havana, its sinking the following month leading to the Spanish-American War. The standard explanation was that the ship was sent to Cuba to protect American lives and property. Walt Johanson explores other factors long
As part of the United States Navy Memorial’s “Authors on Deck” book lecture series, author Christopher Bell will present his latest work, Churchill and Sea Power (Oxford University Press, 2012). Bell addresses a surprisingly neglected aspect of Winston Churchill's career: his attitude to sea power. Churchill's relationship to the Royal Navy was closer and more
SPACE IS LIMITED- PLEASE RESERVE YOUR SPOT: $10.00 per person Learn more here: http://thewarof1812symposium.weebly.com/ (843) 727-2165 http://oldexchange.org/ [email protected] Moderator- Dr. Don Hickey, The Citadel 8:30-9:00: Coffee and Introductory Remarks 9:00-9:45: Don Hickey (The Citadel): "Ten Things that Everyone Should Know About the War of 1812" 9:45-10:30: J.C.A. Stagg (University of Virginia): "A Needlessly Complicated Problem: Why
As part of the United States Navy Memorial’s “Authors on Deck” book lecture series in honor of Black History Month, author Bland Simpson will present his literary work, Two Captains from Carolina: Moses Grandy, John Newland Maffitt, and the Coming of the Civil War (University of North Carolina Press; September 2012). Two Captains from Carolina
As part of the United States Navy Memorial’s “Authors on Deck” book lecture series, former U.S. Navy SEAL trainer, star of the 2012 box-office hit Act of Valor and author Rorke Denver will present his first work, DAMN FEW: Making the Modern SEAL Warrior (Hyperion, February 2013). In his book, Denver speaks with unparalleled knowledge
The Maritime Committee of the Maryland Historical Society is co-sponsoring with the University of Baltimore a book-talk on Friday evening, February 22, 2013. The author is Professor Paul Gilje, whose new book is called Free Trade and Sailors' Rights in the War of 1812. To be published by the Cambridge University Press. Organizers expect the
Rear Admiral J. Robert Lunney NYNM (Ret.) will focus on the miraculous rescue, not generally known to the public, that he participated in while serving on board the S.S. Meredith Victory. In December 1950, aboard an American cargo ship with room for only 12 passengers, the crew performed an extraordinary rescue of 14,000 Korean men,