"British - American Strategies on the Great Lakes, 1812-1814"
 
by: Dr. David C. Skaggs, Professor of History, Bowling Green State
Univrersity,
           Bowling Green, Ohio
 
Date: Feb 27, 1997, Time: 7:00-8:00 pm, Place: Southwest Academic Center,
Room
         1016, The University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio (Corner of Dorr & Secor
Sts.)
 
Information: Marie Plummer Minniear (419-867-3435) or Pat Tucker
(419-693-1214)
 
Free Admission - Public Welcomed - Free & Convenient Parking - Free Coffee &
Cookies
 
A nationally recognized expert in the field of American History, particularly
American Military History,  Professor Skaggs will speak on British and
American Strategies on land and at sea to win the conflict on the Great Lakes
during the War of 1812. Dr. Skaggs is currently writing "A Signal Victory:
The Lake Erie Campaign, 1812-1813" to be published by the Naval Institute
Press. His publications include:  a translation of Hessian Captain Johann
Ewald's "A Treatise on Partisan Warfare (Greenwood Press, 1991, originally
published in 1785); "War on the Great Lakes" (Kent State University Press,
1991); "In Defense of the Republic: Readings in American Military History"
(Wadsworth Publishing, 1991); "The Poetic Writings of Thomas Cradock,
1718-1770" (University of Delaware Press, 1983); "The Old Northwest in the
American Revolution" (State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1977); and
"Roots of Maryland Democracy 1753-1776" (Greenwood Press, 1973).
 
Dr. Skaggs is also the author of numerous, scholarly articles appearing in
periodicals like: Journal of American History; William & Mary Quarterly;
Journal of the Early Republic; Journal of Military History; Military Affairs;
Armed Forces and Society; Parameters; and the Quarterly Journal of Speech.
 
He has held several visiting scholar positions to include:  Visiting
Professor of Military History and Strategy, Air War College, Maxwell AFB,
Alabama, 1990-1991 and 1995-1996; William C. Foster Visiting Fellow, U.S.
Arms Control & Disarmament Agency, Washington, D.C. 1985-1986; Distinguished
Visiting Professor, Defense Intelligence College, Washington, D.C., 1989; and
Visiting Associate Professor of History, University of Wisconsin, 1971-1972.
 
Professor Skaggs is also a graduate of the Army War College and the Army
Command & General Staff College.  His last Army Reserve assignment was as
Command Historian, U.S. European Command, Stuttgart, Germany.  In 1991, Dr.
Skaggs retired as a colonel.