About the speakers<\/p>\n
Dr Eamonn O\u2019Keeffe<\/strong> is the National Army Museum Junior Research Fellow at Queens\u2019 College, Cambridge. He completed a DPhil at the University of Oxford in 2022. Eamonn\u2019s work has received the Andr\u00e9 Corvisier Prize, awarded by the International Commission for Military History, and the Pollard Prize, awarded by the Institute for Historical Research.<\/p>\n Mark Urban<\/strong> is a journalist, broadcaster and military historian. He covered international affairs for the BBC\u2019s Newsnight programme for over 30 years and is the author of more than a dozen books, including \u2018Fusiliers\u2019, which tells the story of the British Army\u2019s campaigns in Revolutionary America through the experiences of one regiment.<\/p>\n Kevin Weddle<\/strong> is a Distinguished Fellow at the US Army War College, the former Professor of Military Theory and Strategy, and the Elihu Root Chair of Military Studies. He is a retired US Army colonel and a veteran of Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, and Operation Enduring Freedom. His second book, \u2018The Compleat Victory\u2019, has won the Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History, the Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award and the Society of the Cincinnati Prize.<\/p>\n Friederike Baer<\/strong> is Associate Professor of History and Division Head for Arts and Humanities at Pennsylvania State University, Abington College. Her research focuses on the experiences of German-speaking people in North America from the Revolutionary period to the late 19th century. Her most recent book, \u2018Hessians: German Soldiers in the American Revolutionary War\u2019, examines the experiences of the estimated 30,000 German soldiers who were hired by Britain to help put down the American rebellion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"About the speakers Dr Eamonn O\u2019Keeffe is the National Army Museum Junior Research Fellow at Queens\u2019 College, Cambridge.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-487116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-northern-ireland","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115347310790020588","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}