NHSA has the privilege of welcoming back Col. John H. Gill (Jack) as our speaker for our study of the Battle of Hohenlinden, the decisive conflict bringing an end to the wars of the Second Coalition against Revolutionary France. Jack is an associate fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London and an adjunct professor at the Near East­–South Asia Center for Strategic Studies, affiliated with the National Defense University in Washington DC. Specializing in the military history of the Napoleonic period, his publications include Thunder on the Danube, With Eagles to Glory,  A Soldier for Napoleon (editor) and  The Battle of Znaim: Napoleon, the Habsburgs and End of the War of 1809 as well as chapters, articles and papers presented to the Society for Military History, the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era and the German Studies Association. His most recent work is Broken Eagles: Napoleon’s German Allies and the Campaigns of 1813. Based on years of research in German and French archives as well as battlefield visits, it is a comprehensive study of the German allies of Napoleon in 1813 featuring more than 100 detailed maps, orders of battle charts and schematics as well as previously unpublished illustrations in color and black and white. A former U.S. Army South Asia Foreign Area Officer, his other publications focus on security affairs in southern Asia, most recently, co-authoring the IISS monograph Nuclear Deterrence and Stability in South Asia: Perceptions and Realities (2021). The talk will take place at 2 pm on 25 April 2026 and will be accompanied by an exhibition as usual. Please contact Philip Marshall on 07946 041733 if you would like to attend