Please join us for a Chambersburg Civil War Seminars & Tours Lecture Series! Our next lecture will be: George Washington and the Battle of Germantown: A New Look by Gary Ecelbarger. Cost is $6 per person. Zoom Login details will be sent with your email registration confirmation.

Synopsis

George Washington is universally considered the Indispensable Man of the Revolution but is often criticized for his battlefield generalship. A common refrain regarding Washington is that he is "the general who lost most of the battles but won the war." With the approaching 250th Anniversary of the Revolutionary War, Gary Ecelbarger will challenge the traditional perception of Washington as a failed battlefield commander with a primary focus on what has been considered one of his defeats--The Battle of Germantown. Using a trove of contemporary sources and offering a fresh look at the sources most often used by previous historians, Ecelbarger will provide…