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Loyalists, Navigators, and Marines: McMullen 2023

I handled the navigators, M.F. Maury and the "Fair Route to Rio." Jessica Sheets, who was  sitting next to me, went into her research on the Maryland Tilghman family divide by the American Revolution. Sitting beside Jessica was Paul Westermeyer.…

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Big Thank You

The Hampton Roads Civil War Roundtable couldn't have been any more gracious in inviting me to speak Sept. 22 at their meeting in Virginia Beach and attentive as an audience with topical questions on the "Scientist at War," Matthew Fontaine…

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Prized Possession

I was honored to have my piece on the Reverend James Maury and Patrick Henry published in this year's Journal of the American Revolution.  It was a landmark case -- even in Virginia colonial law -- that laid the groundwork…

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Sea History and Blue & Gray on Maury

Two reviews that captured what I wanted to do with Matthew Fontaine Maury, Father of Oceanography: picture him in a way that was similar to that of Hyman Rickover, father of the nuclear Navy.  They were naval officers who were…

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Whales Tales and the Northwest Passage

Dr. Elisha Kent Kane led the Second Grinnell Expedition to find the remains of the Franklin party and the elusive Northwest Passage.   From the end of the Mexican War until 1861,  Lieutenant Matthew Fontaine Maury used his international reputation…

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