Future Programs – 2013, 2014, 2015

2013 – Tentative

January 2013:  Magruder’s Confederacy: The Battle for Galveston Bay, Sabine Pass and Palmito Ranch with an additional tours to the Battle of San Jacinto, the Goliad Massacre and the Battles of Palo Alto and Resaca de La Palma
February 2013:  Malta and Operation Husky:  The Invasion of Sicily—The British, German and American Perspectives
March 2013:  Vicksburg 8:  The Battle of Baton Rouge and the Siege of Port Hudson
April 2013:  Chancellorsville:  A detailed seminar and tour
April 2013:  Grant’s Greatest Campaigns:  Grant Wins Vicksburg, a seminar and tour encompassing Grand Gulf, Port Gibson, Raymond, Jackson, Champion Hill and Big Black River Bridge
May 2013:  BGES Bicentennial Commemoration, The War of 1812:  War on the Niagara Frontier (Niagara Falls, Ontario)
June 2013:  Directors Tour:  Three Days that Changed the World:  The Battle of Gettysburg
July 2013:  USMA 5 Star Symposium:  Eisenhower, Bradley, MacArthur, Arnold
August 2013:  A Walking Tour of Chickamauga
September 2013:  A Study in Command:  Operation Market Garden
October 2013:  Grant’s Greatest Campaigns:  The Key is in his Pocket:  Grant Takes Vicksburg
November 2013:  The Sable Edge, Blacks in the Union Army a seminar and tour based in Charleston, SC  (Includes Morris Island, Sherman’s March and Honey Hill
December 2013:  Profiles in Leadership:  Admiral Nimitz and His Deputies in the Pacific Theater, A seminar and tour

2014 – Tentative

January 2014:  Profiles in Leadership:  George Washington at Trenton, Princeton and Valley Forge  a seminar and tour from Philadelphia
February 2014: The Charleston Conference:  Innovations in Warfare, a symposium with tours
March 2014:  The Atlanta Campaign through the March to the Sea
April 2014:  The Campaign for Shiloh
April 2014:  The Battles of the Wilderness and Spotsylvania
May 2014:  Cracking the Gothic Line:  From Florence to the Death of Mussolini a seminar and tour from Milan
June 2014:  The Battles for the North Anna and Cold Harbor
June 2014:  BGES Bicentennial Commemoration of the War of 1812:  War in the Old Northwest
July 2014:  Butler’s Bermuda Hundred Campaign
August 2014:  The Siege of Petersburg Part 1 through December 1864
August 2014:  The Burning of the Shenandoah Valley, a Seminar and Tour
September 2014:  The Sandhurst Conference “Planning for Victory:  The Summits of  Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin” Symposium and Tours “Fighting in the Hedgerows” from London
October 2014:  Early’s Valley Campaign
October 2014:  That Devil Forrest:  A Symposium and Tours of Brices Crossroads, Fort Pillow, Parker’s Crossroads and Streight’s Raid
November 2014:  War in Western Virginia—The Early Campaigns
December 2014:  Studies in Leadership from Luxembourg:  Patton and the Battle of the Bulge

2015 – Tentative

January 2015:  The Wilmington Campaign
January 2015:  The BGES Bicentennial Commemoration of the War of 1812:  The Battle of New Orleans and A Treaty In Ghent
February 2015:  I Shall Return, Douglas MacArthur and the War in the Pacific from Tokyo
February 2015:  MacArthur and the Inchon Landing
February 2015:  Sherman’s March through the Carolinas
March 2015:  BGES Staff Ride of the Battle of Bentonville
March 2015:  Sibley’s New Mexico Campaign
April 2015:  Siege of Petersburg, Part 2 and the Retreat to Appomattox
April 2015:  BGES Revolutionary War in Detail:  The Battle for Long Island and Washington’s Withdrawal from Manhattan
May 2015:  The Murder of Abraham Lincoln, seminar and tour
May 2015:  Operation Overlord
June 2015:  “A New Birth of Freedom, Changes in America in the Wake of the War”  A Symposium in Springfield, Illinois
July 2015:  The Sioux Uprising of 1862
July 2015:  Road to Disgrace:  Benedict Arnold in the American Revolution
August 2015:  “Old Times they are not forgotten”  A Symposium on Reconstruction and the image of the Lost Cause in Lexington, Virginia
September 2015:  The Sandhurst Symposium:  The Strategy of Appeasement War!
September 2015:  Tour:  The Germans Invade Poland
September 2015:  The Red River Buffalo Indian Wars
October 2015:  The World Turned Upside Down, The British at Yorktown
October 2015:  McClellan’s Peninsula Campaign—The Monitor and Merrimac through the Battle of Williamsburg
November 2015:  “The Greatest Generation?”  A Comparative Symposium of the Achievements of the Civil War and WW II Veterans in New Orleans
December 2015:  “Was the South Right?”  A Constitutional Debate from where it all started.  Charleston, SC

And, coming in 2016:

The Sandhurst Symposium:  The German Military Machine
Tour: Blitzkreig to Paris
Inside Nazi Germany:  A symposium and tour from Munich