Events

Join Museum Collections and Operations Manager Paul Newman as he discusses a portrait of Capt. Francis Lord Rawdon (1754-1826) by Hugh Douglas Hamilton (1740-1808), ca 1777. Lord Rawdon, an Irish-born officer in the British army, served under Generals Sir Henry Clinton and Charles Lord Cornwallis during the Revolutionary War. After taking charge of his company following the wounding of his superior officer at the Battle of Bunker Hill, he experienced almost every major battle through the end of the war.…

Join Deputy Director and Curator Emily Parsons for a discussion of Dr. James Tilton’s Society of the Cincinnati Eagle insignia, along with his 1813 treatise on military hospitals—both of which are on display in our current exhibition, Saving Soldiers: Medical Practice in the Revolutionary War, now on view through November 27, 2022. James Tilton began his long career as a military physician in January 1776 when he joined the Delaware Regiment as a surgeon. Less than a year later, he…

Join Historical Programs Manager Andrew Outten for a presentation on a pair of holster pistols that was owned by Gen. Nathanael Greene and given to his aide-de-camp, Nathaniel Pendleton, who served under Greene during the Southern Campaign of the Revolutionary War. The brass box-lock pistols were made about 1782 by William Grice and Charles Freeth of Birmingham, England, and feature the initials “NG” engraved on the silver escutcheons. This Lunch Bite will focus on the history of the pistols along…