Restoring the Importance of Our American History...Understanding it Better
Friday, March 28 (6:30pm) – Sunday, March 30, 2025 (12:30pm)
Tour registration:
Conference only: $295
Conference + Bus Tour: $470HQ: Glen Allen (Greater Richmond), Virginia
“America’s Premier Conference on the American Revolution – Always In-Person, Never on Zoom”™
Friday, March 15 (6:30pm) – Sunday, March 17, 2024 (12:30pm)
Tour registration:
Conference only: $345HQ: Glen Allen (Greater Richmond), Virginia
“America’s Premier Conference on the American Revolution”
“Always In-Person, Never on Zoom”
Wednesday, June 19 (7pm) – Saturday, June 22 (5:00pm)
Led by: Dr. Phillip Hamilton
HQ: Latham, NY
Tour Registration: $575.00
One of the most iconic operations of the Revolutionary War was the transport of artillery and military munitions from Fort Ticonderoga and Crown Point to Boston by Col. Henry Knox. In the dead of winter, the “Noble Train of Artillery” was floated south on Lake George. After a heavy snowfall, the guns were pulled by sled from Lake George to Albany after crossing the Mohawk and Hudson rivers, and then hauled over the Berkshires to Boston. Here the guns were placed on Dorchester Heights by George Washington’s army in March 1776, much to the surprise of the British currently under siege in Boston. A young, former Boston bookseller, Knox, who had a penchant for artillery, was given the chance to command the expedition which he completed successfully. It is a story worth telling as we approach the 250th anniversary of this event next year. We’ll avoid the snow drifts, ice and sleet experienced by Knox’s men by traversing the route in June, rather than the blistery cold days of December through February in 1775-76. But it will be a memorable trek, nonetheless. [Read more…]
Saturday, September 7, 2024 (8AM to 5PM)
Led by: Jeff O’Connor and Bruce Venter
Departure: Amsterdam, NY
Tour Registration: $165.00
This tour will feature the raids, forts, and battles in the Schoharie Valley during the American Revolution.
Many contributing factors made living on the western edge of Albany County, near the frontier, a very dangerous place during the war. Events here are indelibly linked to the people and events of the Mohawk Valley, as well as New York State and beyond. What happened in the Schoharie Valley region was part of a particularly brutal civil war that erupted on New York’s frontier. [Read more…]
Friday, September 20, 2024 (8am to 5pm)
Led by: Jim Rowe and Bruce Venter
Departure: Fort Ticonderoga parking lot
Tour Registration: $150.00
America’s History, LLC will again partner with Fort Ticonderoga to offer a one-day Revolutionary War bus tour.
After leaving Fort Ticonderoga, our tour will start in Bennington, Vermont. On the way to the headquarters of the “Bennington Mob” otherwise known as the Green Mountain Boys we’ll discuss the major characters we’ll meet on today’s tour. Background on the Hampshire Grants dispute, between the settlers led by Ethan Allen and New York officials, will set the stage for what happens on May 10, 1775. In Bennington, we’ll see several landmark sites associated with Ethan Allen like the Catamount Tavern, as the plot to capture Fort Ticonderoga unfolds.
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Friday, November 15 to Sunday, November 17, 2024
Tour registration:
Conference only: $345 Conference & Bus Tour: $495HQ: Glen Allen (Greater Richmond), Virginia
Friday, March 17 (6:30pm) – Sunday, March 19, 2023 (12:30pm)
Tour registration:
Conference only: $295
Conference + Bus Tour: $440All previous conference and tour credits will be honored at no additional cost.
HQ: Williamsburg, Virginia
Saturday, September 30 (8:00am-6:00pm)
Led by: Lt. Col Michael McGurty (ret.)
Tour Starts/Ends at: NY State Thruway Park n Ride
Tour Registration: $150.00 (Check or Credit Card)
After the American-French victory at Yorktown on October 19, 1781, George Washington moved the Continental Army back to upstate New York because British forces under Sir Henry Clinton still occupied New York City. Washington’s army encamped near Newburgh, New York where the general established his headquarters. [Read more…]
Tuesday, May 9 (7:00pm EST) – Saturday, May 13, 2023 (10:00am EST)
Led by: A. Wilson “Will” Greene
HQ: Fredericksburg, VA
**All Hotel Accommodations & All Meals are Included in the Cost of This Tour**
Tour Registration: $1759.00 (Check or Credit Card)
We hope you can join us for the third installment of our Campaigning with Grant series! This year, Grant arrives in Virginia with the new rank of lieutenant general and the title of general-in-chief. Grant decides to make his headquarters with George Meade’s Army of the Potomac and plans a campaign to move against Richmond and an inevitable clash with Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. Confederate logistics preclude going on the operational offensive, but the Army of Northern Virginia still possesses power as a counter-puncher.The Union army’s progress toward Richmond is a bloody one. In forty days, the armies meet numerous times in a series of drawn battles. After each engagement, Grant and Meade sidle to their left, southeast, in an attempt to outflank the Rebels, and each time Lee’s veterans are there to block them. Eventually, the Federals run out of flanking room north of Richmond, leading to Grant’s bold decision to execute a crossing of the James and an attack against Petersburg. [Read more…]
Friday, March 18 (6:30pm) – Sunday, March 20, 2022 (12:30pm)
Tour registration: $306
**Visa, Master Card and Discover accepted. Credit card payments include additional fees.
All previous conference and Great Bridge tour credits will be honored at no additional cost
HQ: Williamsburg, Virginia
