2013 Consortium on the Revolutionary Era,

1750-1850

43rd Annual Conference

February 21-23, 2013

Ft. Worth, Texas

Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, Board of Directors 2012-2013

Rafe Blaufarb Marc Lerner

Florida State University University of Mississippi

Jack Censer Michael Leggiere

George Mason University Military History Center

University of North Texas

Susan Conner Suzanne Marchand

Albion College Louisiana State University

Llewellyn Cook Alexander Mikaberidze

Jacksonville State University Louisiana State University in Shreveport

Denise Davidson William Olejniczak

Georgia State University College of Charleston

Karen Hagemann Frederick C. Schneid

University of North Carolina High Point University

Carol. E. Harrison Bruce Vandervort

University of South Carolina Virginia Military Institute

Ralph Kingston

Auburn University

Program Committee: Denise Davidson, Georgia State University

Marc Lerner, University of Mississippi Alexander Mikaberidze, Louisiana State University in Shreveport

Frederick Schneid, High Point University

Michael Leggiere, University of North Texas

The Board of Directors thanks the following individuals and organizations: The Society for Military History

The Military History Center, University of North Texas

The College of Arts and Sciences, University of North Texas Richard B. McCaslin, Chair of the History Department, University of North Texas

Laura Zelman, Events Coordinator of the History Department, University of North Texas

Department of History, University of North Texas Graduate Students, The Military History Center, University of North Texas

Registration 3:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. West Promenade

UNT Department of History

Reception 6:00 p.m. – 7:15 p.m. West Promenade

Keynote Address 7:30 p.m. Crystal Ballroom A

Karen Hagemann, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Heroes, Horror and Hunger: The Battle of Leipzig in October 1813 - Experiences and

Memories

Thursday, 21 February

Friday, 22 February

Session 1 8:30 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.

1A Fighting For and Against Freedom

Texas A

Chair: Wayne Hanley, West Chester University of Pennsylvania

C.L. Juergens, Florida State University

Hessians in New Jersey: Friedrich II’s Soldatenhandel and the American Revolution

Nicholas Stark, Florida State University

The French in the Emerald Isle: The Role of France in the Irish Rising of 1798

Commentator: Paul Krajeski, U.S. Naval War College

1B Allied War Planning in 1813

Texas B

Chair: Frederick Schneid, High Point University

Michael Leggiere, University of North Texas

Drafting and Executing the Trachenberg Plan: May-August 1813

Llewellyn Cook, Jacksonville State University

The Trachenberg Plan in Action: August 1813

Commentator: Charles E. White, Command Historian, U.S. Army Forces Command

1C Managing and Controlling Conquered Peoples

Texas C

Chair: Michael Jones, U.S. Naval Postgraduate School

Alexander Stavropoulos, City University of New York

The Role of the French Diplomatic Corps in the Reform and Exploitation of the Satellite

States of the Napoleonic Empire, 1803-1813

Mark Edward Hay, King’s College, London

Fighting for Liberty and Equality: The Dutch Role in the War of the Sixth Coalition

Revisited

Commentator: Alexander Mikaberidze, Louisiana State University-Shreveport

1D Sites of Patriotism in American Architecture

Citizens C

Chair: Melissa Geiger, East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania

John Hebble, Virginia Commonwealth University

Washington’s Headquarters: The Vassall-Craigie-Longfellow House (1759) and the Ford

Mansion (1774) as Icons of America’s Colonial Past

Craig Reynolds, Virginia Commonwealth University

Thomas Jefferson’s Imperial-Renaissance Architectural Reform Movement

Commentator: Melissa Geiger

Break 10:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

Session 2 10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

2A Does Military History Matter? Napoleonic Battles and Campaigns

Texas A

Chair: Kevin D. McCranie, U. S. Naval War College

Donald H. Barry, Tallahassee Community College

Monumental Meaning at Marengo in 1800

Jack Sigler, Independent Scholar

Auguries of Antiquity and Modernity: Napoleon in Egypt

Commentator: Alexander Mikaberidze, Louisiana State University-Shreveport

2B Continuity or Change? Theology and Religious Practice in the Revolutionary Era

Texas B

Chair: Thomas Sosnowski, Kent State University

Karen E. Carter, Brigham Young University

Eighteenth-Century Rural Religion: Confession and Community in the French Parish

Annette Chapman-Adisho, Salem State University

Bishops in the East: The Debate on the Civil Constitution of the Clergy in the Métropole

de l’Est

Xavier Marechaux, SUNY Old Westbury

Beyond Idées Reçues: Tracking the After Effects of the Dechristianization of Year II in

the Consulate and Empire

Commentator: Jeffrey Burson, Georgia Southern University

2C Napoleon and his Supporting Cast

Texas C

Chair: Victor André Masséna, Prince d’Essling, Fondation Napoléon

Thierry Lentz, Fondation Napoléon

Napoleon’s Ministers

Pierre Branda, Fondation Napoléon

The ‘Maison de l’Empereur’ or the ‘Emperor’s Household’

Peter Hicks, Fondation Napoléon

Lazare de Carnot: A Forgotten Piece in the Napoleon Bonaparte Jigsaw

Commentator: Alexander Grab, University of Maine

2D Imperial Military Leadership, or Lack Thereof

Citizens D

Chair: Huw J. Davies, King’s College, London

Chad Tomaselli, University of North Texas

The Little Expedition That Could, Then Did Not: Murat’s Invasion of Sicily, 1808-1810

Wayne Hanley, West Chester University of Pennsylvania

Ney Versus Wellington (and Masséna) during the Retreat from Portugal in 1811

Commentator: Mark Gerges, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College

Lunch 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Crystal Ballroom C

Dennis Showalter, Colorado College

Europe from 1793 to 1815: Military Revolution in an Age of Revolutionary War?

Session 3 2:15 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.

3A Roundtable: The Meaning of 1813: Historiographic Debates and Teaching Strategies

Texas A

Chair: Suzanne Marchand, Louisiana State University

David Barclay, Executive Director, German Studies Association, Kalamazoo College Karen Hagemann, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Katherine Aaslestad, West Virginia University

Sam A. Mustafa, Ramapo College

3B Childhood, Youth, and Violence in the Age of Revolution

Texas B

Chair: Blakely Hume, Truckee Meadows Community College

Spencer Keralis, University of North Texas

The Squirrel on a Golden Chain: Pet Making, Self-Mastery, and Enlightenment Boyhood

Lenora Warren, Colgate University

Quarterdeck Diversions: Youthful Violence in Equiano’s Interesting Narrative

Thomas Cardoza, Truckee Meadows Community College

Now is not the Time to Obey You: Youthful Rebellion and Military Submission in Jacques

Chevillet’s Ma Vie Militaire

Comment: The Audience

3C Fighting the Wars of the French Revolution

Texas C

Chair: Frederick Schneid, High Point University

Jonathan Abel, University of North Texas

The Use of Complex and Professional Tactics by the French Army from 1792 to 1794

Jordan Hayworth, University of North Texas

Jourdan and Carnot at the Battle of Wattignies, 15-16 October 1793

Nate Jarrett, University of North Texas

Re-Evaluating the British Flanders Expedition of 1793

Commentator: Jerry Gallaher, Emeritus, University of Southern Illinois

3D Religion in Revolutionary Times

Citizens C

Chair: Annette Chapman-Adisho, Salem State University

Paul Fox, Auburn University

Revolutionary Religion: Popular Violence and the Episcopalian Backlash in Late Stuart

Scotland

Tim Best, Florida State University

Creating France: The Constituent National Assembly and the Case of Avignon

Phillip Cuccia, U.S. Army

Controlling the Archives: The Requisition, Removal, and Return of the Vatican Archives

during the Age of Napoleon

Commentator: Karen Carter, Brigham Young University

3E Leadership in the American Revolution

Citizens B

Chair: Charles E. White, Command Historian, U.S. Army Forces Command

John Antal, Independent Scholar

Leadership in Action: George Washington and his Lieutenants at Trenton and Princeton

Mike Jones, U.S. Naval Postgraduate School

Uncommon Sense: Nathanael Greene vs. His Predecessors

Commentator: Michael Bonura, University of New Mexico ROTC

Break 4:15 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Session 4 4:30 p.m. – 6:15 p.m.

4A Graduate Student Forum: The Direction of Military and Diplomatic History in the Academy

Texas A

Chair: Richard B. McCaslin, University of North Texas

Joseph Miller, University of Maine Patricia Perrella, Florida State University Jonathan Abel, University of North Texas Mark Hay, King’s College, London

Jordan Hayworth, University of North Texas Chris Juergens, Florida State University

Chad Tomaselli, University of North Texas Caleb Greinke, Florida State University Nate Jarrett, University of North Texas

4C Emotion, Family, and War in Enlightenment and Revolutionary France

Texas C

Chair: Rafe Blaufarb, Florida State University

Christy Pichichero, George Mason University

Le ‘coeur des humains’ à la guerre: Emotion in Military Thought of the French Enlight-

enment

Thomas Dodman, Boston College

Emile in the Trenches: Emotions of a Revolutionary Volunteer

Jennifer Heuer, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

New Spartan Heroines? Stoic Maternal Sacrifice and the Revolutionary Wars

Commentator: Thomas Cardoza, Truckee Meadows Community College

4B Transportation, Commerce, & Culture in the Revolutionary Age

Texas B

Chair: Jack Censer, George Mason University

Margaret Crosby-Arnold, Columbia University

Rivers, Lakes & Canals: Europe’s Inland Waterways and the Entanglement of the

Continental Interior in Atlantic History

Chloe Northrop, University of North Texas

Transatlantic Exchanges of Material Goods: The Brodbelts of Jamaica

Commentator: Philippe Girard, McNeese State University

4D The Prussian Way of War

Citizens C

Chair: Paul Krajeski, U.S. Naval War College

Michael Stout, University of North Texas

The Influence of the Partitions of Poland on the Decline of the Prussian Army, 1772-

1806

Charles E. White, Command Historian, U.S. Army Forces Command

A Sign From the Future: Scharnhorst’s Strategic Vision in March 1813

Commentator: Dennis Showalter, Colorado College

Dinner (on your own)

Saturday, 23 February

Session 5 8:30 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.

5A The Russian Campaign, 1812

Texas A

Chair: Sam A. Mustafa, Ramapo College of New Jersey

John H. Gill, National Defense University

The Rheinbund in Russia 1812

Alexander Grab, University of Maine

The Italian Contingent in the Russian Campaign

Alexander Mikaberidze, Louisiana State University-Shreveport

Prisoners of War in the Russian Campaign

Commentator: Frederick Schneid, High Point University

5B Naval Dimensions of the Wars of Latin American Independence

Texas B

Chair: Allan J. Kuethe, Texas Tech University

Edna Markham, Independent Scholar

The Geography of the Latin American Naval Insurgency

Caleb Greinke, Florida State University

The Sociology of the Latin American Naval Insurgency

Rafe Blaufarb, Florida State University

The Napoleonic Aftermath: Fifteen Years of Global Naval Warfare

Commentator: Kevin D. McCranie, U.S. Naval War College

5C Death and Disease in the Revolutionary Era

Texas C

Chair: Bette Oliver, Independent Scholar

Michelle Findlater, University of North Texas

Pestilent Pox: Debating the Use or Abuse of Mercury for Venereal Disease in George

III’s London

Anna Duch, University of North Texas

Enlightened Monarchs? Heart Burial and the Ruling Dynasties of Europe

Commentator: Susan Conner, Albion College

5D Reactionaries, Revivalists, and Revolutionaries: Religion and Politics in Mid-Nineteenth Century German-Speaking Europe

Citizens C Chair: David Barclay, Executive Director, German Studies Association, Kalamazoo College

Scott M. Berg, Louisiana State University

Restoring Austria? Reaction and Toleration among the Catholic Kreise and the At-

tempted Catholic Revival in Austria

Marc H. Lerner, University of Mississippi

Politics and Religion in the Swiss Sonderbund

David Ellis, Augustana College

Splendid Neutrality: Explaining Prussia’s Stance in the Crimean War

Commentator: Suzanne Marchand, Louisiana State University

Break 10:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

Session 6 10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

6A The Turning Point: 1813 in Northern Germany

Texas A

Chair: David Barclay, Executive Director, German Studies Association, Kalamazoo College

Katherine Aaslestad, West Virginia University

The Many Meanings of 1813 in Hamburg

Sam A. Mustafa, Ramapo College of New Jersey

The Fall of Westphalia, 1813

Commentator: John H. Gill, National Defense University

6B Hearts of Oak, Feet of Clay: Naval and Military Power in the Napoleonic Period

Texas B

Chair: Mark T. Gerges, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College

Allan J. Kuethe, Texas Tech University

The Spanish Naval Crisis of 1790-1800

Huw J. Davies, King’s College, London

“A Wandering Army:” The British Army Before and Beyond the Peninsular War

Kevin D. McCranie, U.S. Naval War College

The Global Naval Power: The Royal Navy after Trafalgar

Commentator: Brian DeToy, United States Military Academy

6C Politics in Revolutionary America

Texas C

Chair: Marc Lerner, University of Mississippi

Joshua P. Canale, Binghamton University

Executive Bodies in Revolutionary Era Virginia, 1775-1783

Rebecca Brannon, James Madison University

The Middling Sort of Loyalist’s Dilemma

Commentator: Guy Chet, University of North Texas

6D Industry and Jewish Emancipation in the Revolutionary Era

Citizens C

Chair: Richard Golden, University of North Texas

David A. Meola, University of British Columbia

“Revolutionary” Behavior – How German Jews Became Masters of Their Own Domain

Suzanne Marchand, Louisiana State University

The Porcelain Industry in Nineteenth-Century Germany

Denis Paz, University of North Texas

William Cobbett’s Israelite Phantasies: A Poisonous Bequest to Working-Class Radicalism?

Commentator: Carol Harrison, University of South Carolina

Lunch (on your own) 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Consortium Board of Directors’ Lunch Meeting Texas D

Session 7 2:15 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

7A Fighting, Negotiating, and Administering in Spain during the Peninsular War

Texas A

Chair: Jack Sigler, Independent Scholar

Mark T. Gerges, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College

Managing Difficult Alliances—Wellington’s Cavalry

Michael Bonura, University of New Mexico ROTC

A French Revolutionary in Catholic Spain: The Problems of Military Administration in

Old Castile, 1809-1810

Commentator: Robert Citino, University of North Texas

7B Visions of the New Republic

Texas B

Chair: Bill Olejniczak, College of Charleston

Rosamond Hooper-Hamersley, New Jersey City University

Republicanism through the Prism of Mercy Otis Warren: Virtue in the Sublimest Sense

Blakely K. Hume, Truckee Meadows Community College

The Rise and Fall of the Republic: The Language of Religion, Politics, and Restoration in

the Letters of Adams and Jefferson

Commentator: Gustav Seligmann, University of North Texas

7C Presentation: Fondation Napoléon in 2013

Texas C

Chair: Michael Leggiere, University of North Texas

Peter Hicks, Fondation Napoléon

Thierry Lentz, Fondation Napoléon

Pierre Branda, Fondation Napoléon

7D Revolutionaries Wanted: Case Studies

Citizens C

Chair: Michael Howell, College of the Ozarks

Biliana Kassabova, Stanford University

From Secret Societies to Revolutionary Dictatorship

Richard B. McCaslin, University of North Texas

In Search of a Revolution: John S. “Rip” Ford of Texas

Nupur Chaudhuri, Texas Southern University

Discourse on Politics and Religion in Beaumarchais’ Opera Tarare

Commentator: Llewellyn Cook, Jacksonville State University

Break 4:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.

Session 8 4:15 p.m. – 6:15 p.m.

8A Narrating Military and War in Art and Literature of the Revolutionary Age

Texas A

Chair: Karen Hagemann, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Margaret B. Rafferty, Independent Scholar

Gallant Boys and Fighting Seamen: The Representation of Early American Naval

Heroes in Children’s Biography

Benjamin H. Rubin, Drew University

Revolutionary Depictions: Alternate Narratives of the American Revolutionary War

through the Artwork of John Trumbull and Howard Pyle

Sarah Lippert, University of Michigan-Flint

Confusion and Contradiction in Portrayals of Napoleon Bonaparte

Betje Klier, Latin Gulf South Research

Perpetuating the Political Battle through Images: Rullmann’s Soldats-Laboureurs in

Texas and Alabama

Commentator: Kurt Rahmlow, University of North Texas

8B The “Other” War of 1812

Texas B

Chair: Michael Bonura, University of New Mexico ROTC

Patricia R. Perrella, Florida State University

Citizen Genet and the Defense of New York during the War of 1812

David Onyon, University of North Texas

Châteauguay and Crysler’s Field: Failure of US Leadership during the War of 1812

Don Bittner, U.S. Marine Corps Command and Staff College

Mutiny on the Resistance: Royal Marine Officers’ Reactions to and Consequences of a

Sailors’ Protest, Spring 1813

Joseph Miller, University of Maine

Daisies in the Ruins of Fort Ticonderoga: War and Trauma in the Life of ‘New Eng-

land’s Most Distinguished Soldier’

Commentator: John Antal, Independent Scholar

8C Roundtable: Armies, Commanders, Operations, and Turning Points in 1813

Texas C

Chair: Frederick Schneid, High Point University

Robert Citino, University of North Texas

Dennis Showalter, Colorado College Huw J. Davies, King’s College, London

Alexander Mikaberidze, Louisiana State University-Shreveport

Llewellyn Cook, Jacksonville State University John H. Gill, National Defense University

Michael Leggiere, University of North Texas

8D Roundtable: The Transatlantic Revolution: Teaching Strategies

Citizens C

Chair: Marc Lerner, University of Mississippi

Philippe Girard, McNeese State University

Rafe Blaufarb, Florida State University

Margaret B. Crosby-Arnold, Columbia University Lenora Warren, Colgate University

Kevin McCranie, U.S. Naval War College

Alexander Grab, University of Maine

Society for Military History Reception

West Promenade 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

Banquet

Crystal Ballroom C 7:30 p.m.

David Barclay, Executive Director, German Studies Association, Kalamazoo College

Myth, Memory, and the Legacies of 1813

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The Consortium on the Revolutionary Era

Directors Emeritus

†Gordon Bond Donald D. Horward

Auburn University Florida State University

†Owen Connelly Martha Keber

University of South Carolina Georgia College

Bernard Cook †Harold T. Parker

Loyola University of New Orleans Duke University

†Charles Crouch Karl Roider

Georgia Southern University Louisiana State University

Ellen Evans John Severn

Georgia State University University of Alabama-Huntsville

Hines Hall Warren F. Spencer

Auburn University University of Georgia

†Robert Holtman David M. Wess

Louisiana State University Samford University

John C. White

University of Alabama-Huntsville