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2012
Napoleonic
Conference
September 14-16
Gettysburg Hotel
GETTYSBURG, PA
The 2012 Napoleonic conference will be held in historic Gettysburg,
Pennsylvania September 14-16 We will be head-quartered at the
Gettysburg Hotel, established in 1797 .
The conference will, as always, concentrate on Napoleonic history,
and on Sunday we will tour the Gettysburg battlefield from a
Napoleonic viewpoint (for those who have to travel home on Sunday,
we will try to organize a special tour on Friday).
While Napoleon may not have been
at Gettysburg, his
spirit most certainly was. The generals on both sides had studied his
campaigns at West Point, and did their best to conduct the battle as
he would have done.
Robert E. Lee was the greatest practitioner of Napoleonic warfare
since the Emperor himself, and George Pickett was often referred to as "the Marshal Ney of
Gettysburg."
If you haven’t been to
Gettysburg in some years, you’ll find it much changed. The Park
Service has worked diligently to restore the field to its
appearance at the time of the battle, reconverting large swaths of
woods back into pastures and farmland, burying unsightly telephone
lines and constructing a new Visitor’s Center. If you have never
visited at all, you are in for a great treat – this is one of the
world’s best preserved and documented battlefields, with literally
hundreds of statues and monuments honoring the men who fought and
died there. Our hotel in the center of town stands on ground that
was overrun by the Confederate army on the first day’s fighting.
You’ll literally be sleeping right on top of one of the world’s
great battlefields.

The Gettysburg
Hotel

The Bar
The Dining Room
Plans for the conference are falling neatly into place, and we have an exciting weekend in store
for us.
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