Friday, October 22 – Sunday, October 24, 2021
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Registration Fee: Conference Only $250.00 – Conference + Bus Tour $350.00
The Road to Bennington: New Insights on Stark’s Victory – September 24, 2021
November 14, 2020 by
Friday, September 24, 2021 (8 AM to 5 PM)
Led by: Michael Gabriel and Robert Selig with Bruce Venter
Departure: Fort Ticonderoga, NY
Tour Registration: $125.00
America’s History is proud to continue its partnership with Fort Ticonderoga by again offering a one-day tour during the Fort’s American Revolution Seminar weekend. Led by Mike Gabriel and Robert “Bob” Selig with Bruce Venter, we will visit many sites important to the Bennington battlefield on the Walloomsac River.
During the summer and fall of 1777, one of the great military campaigns of world history was fought in the dense forests and rolling fields of upstate New York. Lt. Gen. John Burgoyne led a combined force of some 9,000 British Redcoats, German hirelings, Loyalists and Native Allies.
Burgoyne’s invasion was part of a three-pronged strategic plan to break the back of the rebellion. His army marched directly south through a near-impenetrable wilderness, attempting to reach its final objective: Albany. But American fortunes changed decisively on the west bank of the Hudson River near Saratoga. The surrender of Burgoyne’s army in October 1777 was more important to the Patriot cause than any other single event during the American Revolution; this “turning point” arguably led to Yorktown four years later. The battle of Bennington may have also been a “turning point” in the campaign itself.
Wilderness Warfare: The French & Indian War from Lake George to Crown Point – September 15-18, 2021
November 14, 2020 by
Wednesday, September 15 (7 PM) to Saturday, September 18 (5 PM)
Led by: David Preston
HQ: Lake George, NY
Tour Registration: $495.00
America’s History’s last two French & Indian War era tours concentrated on the conflict in western Pennsylvania: Braddock’s Defeat and Pontiac’s Rebellion. Now we are moving to the crucible of wilderness warfare: the Lake George/Lake Champlain corridor to Canada. Our tour guide for this expedition is the premier historian of the Seven Years’ War, Dr. David Preston. Even if you have visited these sites in the past, this tour provides an exciting interpretation of the strategy, tactics and logistics for the years 1755 to 1759 in northern New York.
We’ll begin our tour in Old Saratoga at the Schuyler House to set the stage for events in 1755 by discussing the military situation at the end of King George’s War. We’ll follow the British advance to Fort Edward and Rogers Island which has an excellent museum dedicated to Rogers Rangers. We’ll follow Maj. Gen. William Johnson’s army as he builds a military road in 1755 to the southern shore of Lake George. Next we’ll cover each part of the three-phased battle of Lake George. We will visit the sites of Bloody Morning Scout, the main battlefield at Lake George and the little seen Bloody Pond site. In the afternoon we will visit the reconstructed Fort William Henry to discuss Rigaud de Vaudreuil’s raid in March 1757, Marquis de Montcalm’s siege of August 1757 and the subsequent massacre after the surrender of the fort. [Read more…]
Grant Takes Command, Part I: Cairo, Paducah, Corinth, Shiloh and More – September 6-11, 2021
November 14, 2020 by
Monday, September 6 (3:00pm CST) – Saturday, September 11, 2021 (10:00am CST)
Led by: A. Wilson “Will” Greene
HQ: Nashville, TN
Tour Registration: $1995.00
Ron Chernow’s award-winning biography, Grant, focused renewed literary attention on the man most responsible for leading Union forces to victory during the American Civil War. Ulysses S. Grant rose from obscurity in 1861 to become a national hero by 1865 and three years later, president of the United States. America’s History, LLC is proud to announce the first of a projected four-year study of this pivotal figure, the armies he commanded, and the brave men he opposed: Grant Takes Command, Cairo to Corinth.
Our tour will journey to the places that between the fall of 1861 and the following autumn elevated Grant from his position as a lowly district commander to the leadership of one of the nation’s premier armies. After our rendezvous near the Nashville Airport, we will start in Cairo, Illinois where Grant made his headquarters in the late summer of 1861, with a stop at the iconic confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers and a visit to the historic Cairo Customs House Museum, a treasure trove of Cairo memorabilia. [Read more…]
**Postponed to 2021**Wellington vs Napolean: The Waterloo Campaign of 1815
February 18, 2020 by
POSTPONED UNTIL 2021 DUE TO THE CORONAVIRUS SITUATION IN EUROPE
Led by: Robert Pocock with Andrew Field
HQ: Waterloo, Belgium
Last year, Bruce and Lynne Venter decided to find a Waterloo tour that would meet the expectations of those of you who participate in America’s History tours. We found that partnership with Robert Pocock’s Campaigns and Culture tour company. We can say without reservation that Robert offers the premier tour on the Waterloo campaign of 1815.
If you are interested in this tour, please call America’s History LLC at 703-785-4373 for more details. When you register for this tour, your price for the tour will be fixed in US dollars and you will not be subject to any fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates. [Read more…]
1st Annual World War II Conference – November 8-10, 2019
January 12, 2019 by
Friday, November 8 – Sunday, November 10, 2019
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Led by Edward G. Lengel and others
Registration Fee: Conference $250.00
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Pontiac’s Rebellion: In Western Pennsylvania and New York – October 2-5, 2019
January 12, 2019 by
Wednesday, October 2 (7:00 pm) – Saturday, October 5, 2019 (5:00pm)
Led by: David Preston
Tour Registration: $775.00 (double occupancy) – $795.00 (single occupancy)
THIS TOUR HAS A REGISTRATION DEADLINE OF SEPTEMBER 1, 2019
An often overlooked event of the colonial period is Pontiac’s Rebellion in 1763. Faced with English settlers streaming across the Appalachian Mountains and new British imperial policies following the French and Indian War, various tribes, loosely led by the Ottawa Chief Pontiac, rose up to save their native lands. Bloodshed was rampant on the Ohio and Pennsylvania frontiers as British outposts fell like dominos. Likewise, Great Britain’s coffers were drained as the cost of troops, sent to quell the uprising added to an already staggering national debt from the last war with France. One of Great Britain’s solutions, the Proclamation of 1763 was a vain attempt to keep colonists east of the mountains; it failed and quickly became one of several causes of the American Revolution. Our historian will discuss the entire scope of Pontiac’s Rebellion, including incidents and battles we will not see on this tour.
On our first day we will visit the reconstructed Fort Ligonier. The original fort was built in 1758 by Maj. Gen James Forbes during his campaign to capture Fort Duquesne (later renamed Fort Pitt.) Fort Ligonier was the jump off site for Col. Henry Bouquet’s expedition to relieve Fort Pitt during Pontiac’s Rebellion. The reconstructed site is an extraordinary example of an18th century fortification. Its museum, recently renovated in 2017, displays a set of pistols owned by Lafayette and given to George Washington. The fort’s artillery train is an excellent example of 18th field pieces and support vehicles. After lunch at a historic restaurant in Ligonier, we will visit the Bushy Run Battlefield for an extensive walking tour where Bouquet’s Highlanders’ forced a great victory over some 400 Delaware, Mingo, Shawnee and Huron tribesmen. The 200+ acre battlefield sits pristinely against a rural landscape. [Read more…]
Evacuation 1777: The Mount Independence Military Road to Hubbardton – September 20, 2019
January 12, 2019 by
Friday, September 20, 2019 (8:00am-4:30pm)
Led by: Bruce Venter & Jim Rowe
Tour Leaves from Fort Ticonderoga
Tour Registration: $100.00
**SOLD OUT!**
America’s History LLC is proud to continue its partnership with Fort Ticonderoga by again offering a special one-day Revolutionary War tour prior to the Fort’s 16th Annual American Revolution Seminar.
On July 5, 1777 it was evident to the American commander of Fort Ticonderoga, Maj. Gen. Arthur St. Clair that the enemy had control of Mount Defiance. British Lt. Gen. John Burgoyne agreed with his chief engineer, Lt. William Twiss that artillery could be hauled to the top of the mountain and fire cannon ball at the fort and Mount Independence. St. Clair ordered an immediate evacuation of the fort and the adjacent encampment on Mount Independence. Some American soldiers fled by water south on Lake Champlain, but the majority of St. Clair’s troops marched over a military road constructed the previous year to Hubbardton and Castleton in the so-called New Hampshire Grants (present day Vermont.) While most of the American army under St. Clair made it to Castleton, a significant part of his command was forced to fight a deadly rear guard action at Hubbardton on July 7. The military road from Mount Independence to Hubbardton and beyond, therefore, played a significant role in the early stages of Burgoyne’s Saratoga campaign. [Read more…]
George Washington’s Indian War: Hamar and St. Clair’s Defeats to Fallen Timbers – September 4-7, 2019
January 12, 2019 by
Wednesday, September 4 (7:00 pm) – Saturday, September 7, 2019 (5:00pm)
Led by: Edward G. Lengel
HQ: Findlay, Ohio
Tour Registration: $495.00
This tour follows the courses of three dramatic campaigns in the Northwest Territory from 1790-1794, beginning with Gen. Josiah Harmar’s inconclusive campaign of 1790; moving on to Gen. Arthur St. Clair’s disastrous Wabash campaign of 1791; and finishing with Gen. Anthony Wayne’s decisive campaign of 1794, which climaxed at Fallen Timbers and broke Indian power in the Northwest Territory. [Read more…]