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Gregory J. W. Urwin

Gregory J. W. Urwin

Gregory J. W. Urwin, the immediate past president of the Society for Military History, is a professor of history at Temple University. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Notre Dame, and has published nine books and many articles, essays, and reviews. He is now researching a social history of Lord Charles Cornwallis’ 1781 Virginia campaign. Urwin is a Fellow of the Company of Military Historians, Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Center for the Study of America and the West, Academic Fellow of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, and general editor for the Campaigns and Commanders Series from University of Oklahoma Press.

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Historiography, Slavery and Indentured Servitude, The War Years (1775-1783) October 19, 2021 October 22, 2021

The Yorktown Tragedy: Washington’s Slave Roundup

On October 19, 1781, Gen. George Washington attained his apex as a soldier. Straddling a spirited charger at the head of a formidable Franco-American…

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The War Years (1775-1783) October 18, 2016 October 7, 2016

With Cornwallis to the Dan: Deconstructing the “Forbes Champagné Letter”

The American War of Independence produced many dramatic episodes, but none surpassed the campaign that Lt. Gen. Charles, Second Earl Cornwallis, conducted in North…

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