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This is a free, in-person talk hosted on June 25, 2026 at 6:00 PM CDT by Evansville Grove Society, Inc. and Eager Free Public Library in Evansville, WI. No registration necessary for this event. This talk will not be held virtually. American fables tell us that the Americans won their independence from Great Britain by using woodland tactics and superior marksmanship against British troops and Hessian “mercenaries” who foolishly marched into battle using dated, linear tactics. Military historians have pushed back, arguing that the British were quite adept at woodland warfare and that George Washington labored throughout the war to make the Continental Army more European in its organization and methods. Military historian John Hall will reweigh the relative importance of frontier traditions and European influences on the American Revolution and offer a new assessment of the generalship of George Washington.
John W. Hall is the Ambrose-Hesseltine Professor of U.S. Military History at UW–Madison. He holds a B.S. in History from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and a PhD in History from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He specializes in American military history with particular emphasis on early and Native American warfare. He is the author of Uncommon Defense: Indian Allies in the Black Hawk War (Harvard University Press, 2009) and numerous essays on early American warfare, including “An Irregular Reconsideration of George Washington and the American Military Tradition,” Journal of Military History (July 2014), which won an Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Prize. He is a past president of the Society for Military History and a retired U.S. Army Reserve colonel, with past assignments as a historian to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, U.S. European Command, U.S. Central Command, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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39 W Main St, Evansville, WI 53536-2122, United States
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