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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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