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2013 Consortium on the Revolutionary Era,
1750-1850
43rd Annual Conference
February 21-23, 2013
Ft. Worth, Texas
Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, Board of Directors 2012-2013
Rafe Blaufarb Marc Lerner
Florida State University University of Mississippi
Jack Censer Michael Leggiere
George Mason University Military History Center
University of North Texas
Susan Conner Suzanne Marchand
Albion College Louisiana State University
Llewellyn Cook Alexander Mikaberidze
Jacksonville State University Louisiana State University in Shreveport
Denise Davidson William Olejniczak
Georgia State University College of Charleston
Karen Hagemann Frederick C. Schneid
University of North Carolina High Point University
Carol. E. Harrison Bruce Vandervort
University of South Carolina Virginia Military Institute
Ralph Kingston
Auburn University
Program Committee: Denise Davidson, Georgia State University
Marc Lerner, University of Mississippi Alexander Mikaberidze, Louisiana State University in Shreveport
Frederick Schneid, High Point University
Michael Leggiere, University of North Texas
The Board of Directors thanks the following individuals and organizations: The Society for Military History
The Military History Center, University of North Texas
The College of Arts and Sciences, University of North Texas Richard B. McCaslin, Chair of the History Department, University of North Texas
Laura Zelman, Events Coordinator of the History Department, University of North Texas
Department of History, University of North Texas Graduate Students, The Military History Center, University of North Texas
Registration 3:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. West Promenade
UNT Department of History
Reception 6:00 p.m. – 7:15 p.m. West Promenade
Keynote Address 7:30 p.m. Crystal Ballroom A
Karen Hagemann, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Heroes, Horror and Hunger: The Battle of Leipzig in October 1813 - Experiences and
Memories
Thursday, 21 February
Friday, 22 February
Session 1 8:30 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.
1A Fighting For and Against Freedom
Texas A
Chair: Wayne Hanley, West Chester University of Pennsylvania
C.L. Juergens, Florida State University
Hessians in New Jersey: Friedrich II’s Soldatenhandel and the American Revolution
Nicholas Stark, Florida State University
The French in the Emerald Isle: The Role of France in the Irish Rising of 1798
Commentator: Paul Krajeski, U.S. Naval War College
1B Allied War Planning in 1813
Texas B
Chair: Frederick Schneid, High Point University
Michael Leggiere, University of North Texas
Drafting and Executing the Trachenberg Plan: May-August 1813
Llewellyn Cook, Jacksonville State University
The Trachenberg Plan in Action: August 1813
Commentator: Charles E. White, Command Historian, U.S. Army Forces Command
1C Managing and Controlling Conquered Peoples
Texas C
Chair: Michael Jones, U.S. Naval Postgraduate School
Alexander Stavropoulos, City University of New York
The Role of the French Diplomatic Corps in the Reform and Exploitation of the Satellite
States of the Napoleonic Empire, 1803-1813
Mark Edward Hay, King’s College, London
Fighting for Liberty and Equality: The Dutch Role in the War of the Sixth Coalition
Revisited
Commentator: Alexander Mikaberidze, Louisiana State University-Shreveport
1D Sites of Patriotism in American Architecture
Citizens C
Chair: Melissa Geiger, East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania
John Hebble, Virginia Commonwealth University
Washington’s Headquarters: The Vassall-Craigie-Longfellow House (1759) and the Ford
Mansion (1774) as Icons of America’s Colonial Past
Craig Reynolds, Virginia Commonwealth University
Thomas Jefferson’s Imperial-Renaissance Architectural Reform Movement
Commentator: Melissa Geiger
Break 10:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Session 2 10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
2A Does Military History Matter? Napoleonic Battles and Campaigns
Texas A
Chair: Kevin D. McCranie, U. S. Naval War College
Donald H. Barry, Tallahassee Community College
Monumental Meaning at Marengo in 1800
Jack Sigler, Independent Scholar
Auguries of Antiquity and Modernity: Napoleon in Egypt
Commentator: Alexander Mikaberidze, Louisiana State University-Shreveport
2B Continuity or Change? Theology and Religious Practice in the Revolutionary Era
Texas B
Chair: Thomas Sosnowski, Kent State University
Karen E. Carter, Brigham Young University
Eighteenth-Century Rural Religion: Confession and Community in the French Parish
Annette Chapman-Adisho, Salem State University
Bishops in the East: The Debate on the Civil Constitution of the Clergy in the Métropole
de l’Est
Xavier Marechaux, SUNY Old Westbury
Beyond Idées Reçues: Tracking the After Effects of the Dechristianization of Year II in
the Consulate and Empire
Commentator: Jeffrey Burson, Georgia Southern University
2C Napoleon and his Supporting Cast
Texas C
Chair: Victor André Masséna, Prince d’Essling, Fondation Napoléon
Thierry Lentz, Fondation Napoléon
Napoleon’s Ministers
Pierre Branda, Fondation Napoléon
The ‘Maison de l’Empereur’ or the ‘Emperor’s Household’
Peter Hicks, Fondation Napoléon
Lazare de Carnot: A Forgotten Piece in the Napoleon Bonaparte Jigsaw
Commentator: Alexander Grab, University of Maine
2D Imperial Military Leadership, or Lack Thereof
Citizens D
Chair: Huw J. Davies, King’s College, London
Chad Tomaselli, University of North Texas
The Little Expedition That Could, Then Did Not: Murat’s Invasion of Sicily, 1808-1810
Wayne Hanley, West Chester University of Pennsylvania
Ney Versus Wellington (and Masséna) during the Retreat from Portugal in 1811
Commentator: Mark Gerges, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College
Lunch 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Crystal Ballroom C
Dennis Showalter, Colorado College
Europe from 1793 to 1815: Military Revolution in an Age of Revolutionary War?
Session 3 2:15 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.
3A Roundtable: The Meaning of 1813: Historiographic Debates and Teaching Strategies
Texas A
Chair: Suzanne Marchand, Louisiana State University
David Barclay, Executive Director, German Studies Association, Kalamazoo College Karen Hagemann, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Katherine Aaslestad, West Virginia University
Sam A. Mustafa, Ramapo College
3B Childhood, Youth, and Violence in the Age of Revolution
Texas B
Chair: Blakely Hume, Truckee Meadows Community College
Spencer Keralis, University of North Texas
The Squirrel on a Golden Chain: Pet Making, Self-Mastery, and Enlightenment Boyhood
Lenora Warren, Colgate University
Quarterdeck Diversions: Youthful Violence in Equiano’s Interesting Narrative
Thomas Cardoza, Truckee Meadows Community College
Now is not the Time to Obey You: Youthful Rebellion and Military Submission in Jacques
Chevillet’s Ma Vie Militaire
Comment: The Audience
3C Fighting the Wars of the French Revolution
Texas C
Chair: Frederick Schneid, High Point University
Jonathan Abel, University of North Texas
The Use of Complex and Professional Tactics by the French Army from 1792 to 1794
Jordan Hayworth, University of North Texas
Jourdan and Carnot at the Battle of Wattignies, 15-16 October 1793
Nate Jarrett, University of North Texas
Re-Evaluating the British Flanders Expedition of 1793
Commentator: Jerry Gallaher, Emeritus, University of Southern Illinois
3D Religion in Revolutionary Times
Citizens C
Chair: Annette Chapman-Adisho, Salem State University
Paul Fox, Auburn University
Revolutionary Religion: Popular Violence and the Episcopalian Backlash in Late Stuart
Scotland
Tim Best, Florida State University
Creating France: The Constituent National Assembly and the Case of Avignon
Phillip Cuccia, U.S. Army
Controlling the Archives: The Requisition, Removal, and Return of the Vatican Archives
during the Age of Napoleon
Commentator: Karen Carter, Brigham Young University
3E Leadership in the American Revolution
Citizens B
Chair: Charles E. White, Command Historian, U.S. Army Forces Command
John Antal, Independent Scholar
Leadership in Action: George Washington and his Lieutenants at Trenton and Princeton
Mike Jones, U.S. Naval Postgraduate School
Uncommon Sense: Nathanael Greene vs. His Predecessors
Commentator: Michael Bonura, University of New Mexico ROTC
Break 4:15 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Session 4 4:30 p.m. – 6:15 p.m.
4A Graduate Student Forum: The Direction of Military and Diplomatic History in the Academy
Texas A
Chair: Richard B. McCaslin, University of North Texas
Joseph Miller, University of Maine Patricia Perrella, Florida State University Jonathan Abel, University of North Texas Mark Hay, King’s College, London
Jordan Hayworth, University of North Texas Chris Juergens, Florida State University
Chad Tomaselli, University of North Texas Caleb Greinke, Florida State University Nate Jarrett, University of North Texas
4C Emotion, Family, and War in Enlightenment and Revolutionary France
Texas C
Chair: Rafe Blaufarb, Florida State University
Christy Pichichero, George Mason University
Le ‘coeur des humains’ à la guerre: Emotion in Military Thought of the French Enlight-
enment
Thomas Dodman, Boston College
Emile in the Trenches: Emotions of a Revolutionary Volunteer
Jennifer Heuer, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
New Spartan Heroines? Stoic Maternal Sacrifice and the Revolutionary Wars
Commentator: Thomas Cardoza, Truckee Meadows Community College
4B Transportation, Commerce, & Culture in the Revolutionary Age
Texas B
Chair: Jack Censer, George Mason University
Margaret Crosby-Arnold, Columbia University
Rivers, Lakes & Canals: Europe’s Inland Waterways and the Entanglement of the
Continental Interior in Atlantic History
Chloe Northrop, University of North Texas
Transatlantic Exchanges of Material Goods: The Brodbelts of Jamaica
Commentator: Philippe Girard, McNeese State University
4D The Prussian Way of War
Citizens C
Chair: Paul Krajeski, U.S. Naval War College
Michael Stout, University of North Texas
The Influence of the Partitions of Poland on the Decline of the Prussian Army, 1772-
1806
Charles E. White, Command Historian, U.S. Army Forces Command
A Sign From the Future: Scharnhorst’s Strategic Vision in March 1813
Commentator: Dennis Showalter, Colorado College
Dinner (on your own)
Saturday, 23 February
Session 5 8:30 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.
5A The Russian Campaign, 1812
Texas A
Chair: Sam A. Mustafa, Ramapo College of New Jersey
John H. Gill, National Defense University
The Rheinbund in Russia 1812
Alexander Grab, University of Maine
The Italian Contingent in the Russian Campaign
Alexander Mikaberidze, Louisiana State University-Shreveport
Prisoners of War in the Russian Campaign
Commentator: Frederick Schneid, High Point University
5B Naval Dimensions of the Wars of Latin American Independence
Texas B
Chair: Allan J. Kuethe, Texas Tech University
Edna Markham, Independent Scholar
The Geography of the Latin American Naval Insurgency
Caleb Greinke, Florida State University
The Sociology of the Latin American Naval Insurgency
Rafe Blaufarb, Florida State University
The Napoleonic Aftermath: Fifteen Years of Global Naval Warfare
Commentator: Kevin D. McCranie, U.S. Naval War College
5C Death and Disease in the Revolutionary Era
Texas C
Chair: Bette Oliver, Independent Scholar
Michelle Findlater, University of North Texas
Pestilent Pox: Debating the Use or Abuse of Mercury for Venereal Disease in George
III’s London
Anna Duch, University of North Texas
Enlightened Monarchs? Heart Burial and the Ruling Dynasties of Europe
Commentator: Susan Conner, Albion College
5D Reactionaries, Revivalists, and Revolutionaries: Religion and Politics in Mid-Nineteenth Century German-Speaking Europe
Citizens C Chair: David Barclay, Executive Director, German Studies Association, Kalamazoo College
Scott M. Berg, Louisiana State University
Restoring Austria? Reaction and Toleration among the Catholic Kreise and the At-
tempted Catholic Revival in Austria
Marc H. Lerner, University of Mississippi
Politics and Religion in the Swiss Sonderbund
David Ellis, Augustana College
Splendid Neutrality: Explaining Prussia’s Stance in the Crimean War
Commentator: Suzanne Marchand, Louisiana State University
Break 10:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Session 6 10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
6A The Turning Point: 1813 in Northern Germany
Texas A
Chair: David Barclay, Executive Director, German Studies Association, Kalamazoo College
Katherine Aaslestad, West Virginia University
The Many Meanings of 1813 in Hamburg
Sam A. Mustafa, Ramapo College of New Jersey
The Fall of Westphalia, 1813
Commentator: John H. Gill, National Defense University
6B Hearts of Oak, Feet of Clay: Naval and Military Power in the Napoleonic Period
Texas B
Chair: Mark T. Gerges, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College
Allan J. Kuethe, Texas Tech University
The Spanish Naval Crisis of 1790-1800
Huw J. Davies, King’s College, London
“A Wandering Army:” The British Army Before and Beyond the Peninsular War
Kevin D. McCranie, U.S. Naval War College
The Global Naval Power: The Royal Navy after Trafalgar
Commentator: Brian DeToy, United States Military Academy
6C Politics in Revolutionary America
Texas C
Chair: Marc Lerner, University of Mississippi
Joshua P. Canale, Binghamton University
Executive Bodies in Revolutionary Era Virginia, 1775-1783
Rebecca Brannon, James Madison University
The Middling Sort of Loyalist’s Dilemma
Commentator: Guy Chet, University of North Texas
6D Industry and Jewish Emancipation in the Revolutionary Era
Citizens C
Chair: Richard Golden, University of North Texas
David A. Meola, University of British Columbia
“Revolutionary” Behavior – How German Jews Became Masters of Their Own Domain
Suzanne Marchand, Louisiana State University
The Porcelain Industry in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Denis Paz, University of North Texas
William Cobbett’s Israelite Phantasies: A Poisonous Bequest to Working-Class Radicalism?
Commentator: Carol Harrison, University of South Carolina
Lunch (on your own) 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Consortium Board of Directors’ Lunch Meeting Texas D
Session 7 2:15 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
7A Fighting, Negotiating, and Administering in Spain during the Peninsular War
Texas A
Chair: Jack Sigler, Independent Scholar
Mark T. Gerges, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College
Managing Difficult Alliances—Wellington’s Cavalry
Michael Bonura, University of New Mexico ROTC
A French Revolutionary in Catholic Spain: The Problems of Military Administration in
Old Castile, 1809-1810
Commentator: Robert Citino, University of North Texas
7B Visions of the New Republic
Texas B
Chair: Bill Olejniczak, College of Charleston
Rosamond Hooper-Hamersley, New Jersey City University
Republicanism through the Prism of Mercy Otis Warren: Virtue in the Sublimest Sense
Blakely K. Hume, Truckee Meadows Community College
The Rise and Fall of the Republic: The Language of Religion, Politics, and Restoration in
the Letters of Adams and Jefferson
Commentator: Gustav Seligmann, University of North Texas
7C Presentation: Fondation Napoléon in 2013
Texas C
Chair: Michael Leggiere, University of North Texas
Peter Hicks, Fondation Napoléon
Thierry Lentz, Fondation Napoléon
Pierre Branda, Fondation Napoléon
7D Revolutionaries Wanted: Case Studies
Citizens C
Chair: Michael Howell, College of the Ozarks
Biliana Kassabova, Stanford University
From Secret Societies to Revolutionary Dictatorship
Richard B. McCaslin, University of North Texas
In Search of a Revolution: John S. “Rip” Ford of Texas
Nupur Chaudhuri, Texas Southern University
Discourse on Politics and Religion in Beaumarchais’ Opera Tarare
Commentator: Llewellyn Cook, Jacksonville State University
Break 4:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.
Session 8 4:15 p.m. – 6:15 p.m.
8A Narrating Military and War in Art and Literature of the Revolutionary Age
Texas A
Chair: Karen Hagemann, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Margaret B. Rafferty, Independent Scholar
Gallant Boys and Fighting Seamen: The Representation of Early American Naval
Heroes in Children’s Biography
Benjamin H. Rubin, Drew University
Revolutionary Depictions: Alternate Narratives of the American Revolutionary War
through the Artwork of John Trumbull and Howard Pyle
Sarah Lippert, University of Michigan-Flint
Confusion and Contradiction in Portrayals of Napoleon Bonaparte
Betje Klier, Latin Gulf South Research
Perpetuating the Political Battle through Images: Rullmann’s Soldats-Laboureurs in
Texas and Alabama
Commentator: Kurt Rahmlow, University of North Texas
8B The “Other” War of 1812
Texas B
Chair: Michael Bonura, University of New Mexico ROTC
Patricia R. Perrella, Florida State University
Citizen Genet and the Defense of New York during the War of 1812
David Onyon, University of North Texas
Châteauguay and Crysler’s Field: Failure of US Leadership during the War of 1812
Don Bittner, U.S. Marine Corps Command and Staff College
Mutiny on the Resistance: Royal Marine Officers’ Reactions to and Consequences of a
Sailors’ Protest, Spring 1813
Joseph Miller, University of Maine
Daisies in the Ruins of Fort Ticonderoga: War and Trauma in the Life of ‘New Eng-
land’s Most Distinguished Soldier’
Commentator: John Antal, Independent Scholar
8C Roundtable: Armies, Commanders, Operations, and Turning Points in 1813
Texas C
Chair: Frederick Schneid, High Point University
Robert Citino, University of North Texas
Dennis Showalter, Colorado College Huw J. Davies, King’s College, London
Alexander Mikaberidze, Louisiana State University-Shreveport
Llewellyn Cook, Jacksonville State University John H. Gill, National Defense University
Michael Leggiere, University of North Texas
8D Roundtable: The Transatlantic Revolution: Teaching Strategies
Citizens C
Chair: Marc Lerner, University of Mississippi
Philippe Girard, McNeese State University
Rafe Blaufarb, Florida State University
Margaret B. Crosby-Arnold, Columbia University Lenora Warren, Colgate University
Kevin McCranie, U.S. Naval War College
Alexander Grab, University of Maine
Society for Military History Reception
West Promenade 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Banquet
Crystal Ballroom C 7:30 p.m.
David Barclay, Executive Director, German Studies Association, Kalamazoo College
Myth, Memory, and the Legacies of 1813
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The Consortium on the Revolutionary Era
Directors Emeritus
†Gordon Bond Donald D. Horward
Auburn University Florida State University
†Owen Connelly Martha Keber
University of South Carolina Georgia College
Bernard Cook †Harold T. Parker
Loyola University of New Orleans Duke University
†Charles Crouch Karl Roider
Georgia Southern University Louisiana State University
Ellen Evans John Severn
Georgia State University University of Alabama-Huntsville
Hines Hall Warren F. Spencer
Auburn University University of Georgia
†Robert Holtman David M. Wess
Louisiana State University Samford University
John C. White
University of Alabama-Huntsville