Thursday November 1, 2012 at 5:30pm
Colony House, Washington Square
$5 per person, $1 NHS members
RSVP to 401-841-8770
Naval War College professor Dr. John Hattendorf will present his first U.S. lecture about his latest book which features the Duke of Marlborough, John Churchill (1650-1722).
Marlborough is known for leading the British Army in the War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne’s War) and he is the famous ancestor of Sir Winston Churchill. In Newport, he is remembered on Marlborough Street and through numerous connections to his descendants including Consuela Vanderbilt of Marble House, who married the ninth Duke of Marlborough. Dr. Hattendorf is editor-in-chief of Marlborough: Soldier and Diplomat, the second volume in the new series “Protagonists of History in International Perspective” from the Dutch publisher Karawansary.
Since 1984, Professor John B. Hattendorf has been the Ernest J. King Professor of Maritime History at the U.S. Naval War College. He is chairman of the College’s Maritime History Department and director of the Naval War College Museum; he served as an officer in the U.S. Navy from 1964 through 1973. He holds history degrees from Kenyon College (1964), Brown University (1971) and earned his D.Phil. from Pembroke College, Oxford (1979). He has written or edited more than 40 books including the Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History (2007). In addition to his work in maritime history, Hattendorf wrote English Grand Strategy in the War of the Spanish Succession (1987) along with 23 articles in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography on figures relating to the War of the Spanish Succession.