Our 2025 Annual Conference
will be held November 6-9 in San Diego
Our conference will be headquartered at the luxury US Grant Hotel.
San Diego has long been an important and valuable city to the nations that have controlled it. Its natural harbors make it an excellent port and its large expanses of land would be developed first into army bases and then airbases. Its history as part of the Spanish, Mexican, and American nation states along with the various indigenous tribes that have populated the area for centuries, have given the region a unique blend of cultures and traditions that remember its past with reverence but also looks optimistically to the future. In that spirit, the theme of this conference will be “History by Land, Sea, and Air.” In keeping with the theme, the historical innovations and achievements of the Napoleonic Era that helped usher in our modern world will be the focus of this conference.
Aside from dinners and speakers, we will visit the Maritime Museum, where we will see a replica of HMS Surprise. This ship was used in the film Master and Commander, which was the most realistic movie recreation of sailing and naval warfare in the Napoleonic era.
Program
| Thursday | No host dinner for early arrivals | Friday | Dinner Speaker Dr. Anna Barker “Napoleon, Iowa: On the Edge of the French Empire” |
Saturday | Talks
Dennis W. Potts “The Assassination of General Kleber: An Act of Jihad against the West” Mark Billings “”Essai Général de tactique: How Guibert Changed the Art of War” Diana Murtaugh Coleman “Napoleon’s Egyptian Campaign from the Islamic Perspective ” J. David Markham TBA Kevin Rodriguez “The Cutting Edge: Three Technologies That Could Have Changed Napoleonic History” Dinner Speaker Dr. James W. Ingram III “The Napoleonic Ethic and the Spirit of Rationalization” |
Sunday | Visit to the Maritime Museum of San Diego and HMS Surprise No host dinner at the Hotel Del Coronado |