Oct 15, 2024
The Friends of the New York State Military Museum will host award-winning historian and author Colonel (Ret.) Kevin J. Weddle at the museum at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 16. The museum is located at 61 Lake Avenue in Saratoga Springs.
The by-invitation only event will allow those invited to meet Col. Weddle, author of the acclaimed book: "The Compleat Victory: Saratoga and the American Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2021), and purchase signed copies of the book.
The Friends of the New York State Military Museum will also present Weddle with its Preserving Our Military Heritage Award. The inaugural award will be given to Kevin Weddle for his outstanding and expertly researched book, The Compleat Victory, which advances existing scholarship on the consequential events that occurred during the Revolutionary War in 1776 and 1777 (Battles of Saratoga in September and October of 1777) that were the Turning Point of the war leading to eventual victory and changing the course of world history.
Weddle is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point (Class of 1979), where he later taught history as a Captain. Col. Weddle has taught many military leaders from New York State at the United States Army War College in Carlisle, Pa, where he is a Distinguished Fellow, Professor Emeritus of Military Theory and Strategy and the former Eli Root Chair of Military Studies. Earlier in his career he served in a variety of command and staff positions overseas including command of a combat engineer battalion. He is a veteran of Operations Desert Storm and Enduring Freedom. He holds master's degrees from the University of Minnesota (history and civil engineering) and a doctorate in history from Princeton University.
The Compleat Victory is the recipient of a number of prestigious awards: The Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award, The Gilder Lehrman Prize for American History presented at the New York Historical Society, The Society of the Cincinnati Prize (American Revolution Institute) and the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution Excellence in American History Book Award.