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Allan Millett and Gary Johnson: The War of 1812 in the Northwest: A Forgotten War with Real Winners and Losers
Allan Millett and Gary Johnson discuss the defeat of Native American tribal confederation in War of 1812 in this session from the 2018 ON WAR Military History Symposium.
The War of 1812 was a conflict fought between the United States and Great Britain over British violations of U.S. maritime rights. The tensions that caused the War of 1812 arose from the French revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. During this nearly constant conflict between France and Britain, American interests were injured by each of the two countries’ endeavors to block the United States from trading with the other.
The Battle of the Thames, also known as the Battle of Moraviantown, was a decisive American victory in the War of 1812 against Great Britain and its Indian allies in the Tecumseh's Confederacy. It took place on October 5, 1813 in Upper Canada, near present-day Chatham, Ontario.
Dr. Allan Millett, a retired Colonel in the Marine Corps Reserve, is an acclaimed military historian, award-winning author, and internationally recognized authority on The Korean War and the United States Marine Corps. He is the Ambrose Professor of History and Director of the Eisenhower Center for American Studies at the University of New Orleans. He is also the Raymond E. Mason Jr. Professor Emeritus of History at Ohio State University.
Dr. Millett has earned numerous awards for his writings and his teaching, including the 2008 Pritzker Literature Award, and the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize from The Society for Military History, which also named its doctoral research fellowship in his honor.
Mr. Gary T. Johnson was named the eighth President of the Chicago History Museum in August 2005. Mr. Johnson is a lifelong Chicagoan, and his passion for Chicago history is evident through his leadership at the Chicago History Museum, focusing on community outreach and strengthening the institution’s financial capacity. Visiting Chicago’s grade schools to share artifacts from the Museum’s collection is a personal commitment for Johnson. He has visited more than 300 classrooms in neighborhoods throughout Chicago.
Mr. Johnson serves as President of Museums in the Park, the association of eleven of Chicago’s major museums and leads their “Museums Work for Chicago” campaign comprising fifteen cultural institutions. He was educated at Harvard University; Oxford University; and Yale College.