NHSA is delighted and honoured to welcome back John H. Gill (Jack) as our speaker for our study of the Battle of Marengo. 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 Volume 1 of his detailed study of the German allies of Napoleon in 1813: Broken Eagles: Napoleon’s German Allies and the Campaigns of 1813 providing an overview of the war and its many ‘campaigns’ before proceeding to cover the involvement of the contingents from Saxony and Bavaria. 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 9 August 2025 and will be accompanied by an exhibition as usual. Please contact Philip Marshall on 07946 041733 if you would like to attend.