May 2022
Dinner & Lecture – “Left Newport … Before Daylight and March’d to Chads Ford”: The Landscape of Conflict and the Battle of Brandywine, September 11, 1777
Prior to the Battle of Brandywine, the American and British armies maneuvered across a suburban landscape familiar to many residents of Delaware and Pennsylvania. Throughout the days before the battle, however, New Castle County, Delaware, and neighboring Chester County, Pennsylvania, were militarized landscapes. During this period, General George Washington seized the strategic initiative and marched his army from a defensive position along Red Clay Creek in Delaware to the Brandywine River in Pennsylvania. In response to this American shift, General…
Find out more »Battlefield Tour – The Battle of Brandywine
Join us for a two-day experience in southeastern Pennsylvania to explore the Battle of Brandywine that includes a buffet dinner and lecture at Radley Run Country Club, located in the same area where General William Howe launched his attack in the afternoon hours of the engagement, and a lecture given by historical archaeologist Wade P. Catts, MA, RPA. To accompany the dinner and lecture, a guided day-long bus tour of the Brandywine battlefield landscape the following day will closely examine…
Find out more »Author’s Talk – Hessians: German Soldiers in the American Revolutionary War
Between 1776 and 1783, Great Britain hired an estimated thirty thousand German soldiers to fight in its war against the American rebels. Collectively known as Hessians, the soldiers and accompanying civilians, including hundreds of women and children, spent extended periods of time in locations as dispersed and varied as Canada, West Florida and Cuba. They penned a large body of private and official records that provide detailed accounts of the American war as well as descriptions of the built and…
Find out more »Lunch Bite – A Portrait of Capt. Francis Lord Rawdon
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.…
Find out more »June 2022
Dupont Kalorama Museum Walk Weekend
Join us and four of our partner museums in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C., that will be open free of charge for this annual festival featuring special exhibitions and activities. Participating museums include Anderson House, Dumbarton House, The Phillips Collection, The National Museum of American Jewish Military History, the Woodrow Wilson House and for the first time, Dupont Underground. For additional information, visit www.DKMuseums.com. Currently, all visitors to Anderson House age 2 and older are required…
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