Wharton Club Of DC

Daniel Morgan: American

• Presentation by Dr. Albert Louis Zambone, Author of Daniel Morgan - A Revolutionary Life. Wharton Club Members & Guests invited.

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  • Daniel Morgan Graduate School of National Security reserves the right to refuse entry.
• Why should a teamster fond of rum, women, and brawling; with time in prison and with the scars of 499 lashes on his back be the patron of this institution? Dr. Albert Louis Zambone will explain how an extraordinary man of the ordinary people became an "example of service to his country, self-improvement through learning, innovation in the face of adversity, and a determination to forge successful outcomes under the most difficult circumstances..."
• Daniel Morgan, a veteran of the French and Indian Wars rose to become a Brigadier General during the American Revolution and, among his other accomplishments, defeated British forces under the command of Sir Banastre Tarleton at the Battle of Cowpens in South Carolina.
• Albert Louis Zambone earned his PhD in American History from the University of Oxford, an MA in Medieval Studies at the Catholic University of America, and a BA in History from Johns Hopkins University. His scholarships and awards in the field of early American history include a Rockefeller Fellowship from the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. He hosts the podcast “Historically Thinking.”
  Daniel Morgan Graduate School of National Security reserves the right to refuse entry.