Dam-Breaking: Arms Trading and American Revolutions
This event will feature speaker Dr. Brian DeLay, history professor at UC Berkeley
Event
Date: Monday, Jan. 12
Time: 7 pm
Location: Arts 241 (Neatby Timlin Theatre)
About this event
This event will feature speaker Dr. Brian DeLay, Professor of History and the Preston Hotchkis Chair in the History of the United States at the University of California, Berkeley.
This talk explains how the thirteen colonies armed their war for independence, and how the newly-independent United States then became the indispensable arms dealer for the Haitian Revolution and the Spanish-American wars of independence.
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