Revolution 250 Podcast
Revolution 250 is a consortium of organizations in New England planning commemorations of the American Revolution's 250th anniversary. https://revolution250.org/Through this podcast you will meet many of the people involved in these commemorations, and learn about the people who brought about the Revolution--which began here. To support Revolution 250, visit https://www.masshist.org/rev250Theme Music: "Road to Boston" fifes: Doug Quigley, Peter Emerick; Drums: Dave Emerick
Revolution 250 Podcast
Major General Chastellux & Revolutionary America with Iris De Rode
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Iris De Rode
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Season 4
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Episode 10
Though he didn't arrive in America until 1780, Major General Francois-Jean de Chastellux had a profound impact on the war's outcome and on the French-American relationship. He also enjoyed a close personal friendship with George Washington, and as a French philosophe was elected a member of both the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Iris De Rode has discovered the Chastellux family archives (dating back to the 1300s) near her childhood home in France, and using this trove of documents has written a biography of the Marquis de Chastellux, and is currently writing Military Enlightenment on the Ground (UVA Press, 2024) about France's intellectual generals in the age of enlightenment.