Twenty-First Annual Seminar on the American Revolution

September 20, 2025

9am -5pm

Location:

9:00am Welcome—Beth Hill, President and CEO, Fort Ticonderoga.

9:15-9:45am Alexander Baldwin’s Independent Company of Albany Rangers—Brian Gerring, Independent Historian and past Edward W. Pell Graduate Fellow at Fort Ticonderoga.

10:00-10:30am The Yeomanry of the New England Officer Corps of the Continental Army in the Northern Department—Paul Elmore, Independent Historian


10:45-11:15am Brigadier General Richard Montgomery: “the citizen moved by the melancholy of necessity of taking up arms for the public safety”—Michael Gabriel, Kutztown University

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 Colonel Elisha Porter—Haley Marie Wrye, Historic Trappe.


2:45-3:15pm “A brave good officer without fortune and desirous of being in service”: John Armstrong Making a Name as Citizen-Soldier—Zachary Distel, National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution

3:30-4:00pm Bayou Patriots? Louisiana Milita and the American Revolution—Rhett Breerwood, Louisiana National Guard Historian

5:00pm Dinner at America’s Fort Café (pre-registration only).

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