The Battle of Hohenlinden 1800
2026-04-25 09:00 - 2026-04-26 17:00 (Europe/London) | NHSA, 24 Kingfisher Court, Hambridge Road, Newbury, Berkshire, RG14 5SJ, United Kingdom
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of Napoleon in 1813 featuring more than 100 detailed maps, orders of battle charts and schematics as well as previously unpublished illustrations in color and black and white.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

The Battle of Hohenlinden 1800
2026-06-13 09:00 - 2026-06-14 17:00
This will be a repeat of the event in which we study the decisive battle of Hohenlinden 1800. Please contact Philip Marshall on 07946 041733 if you would like to attend.

The Spanish Armada
2026-08-15 08:00 - 2026-08-16 17:00
NHSA is delighted and honoured to welcome Professor Geoffrey Parker as our speaker for our study of the Spanish Armada campaign, perhaps the greatest challenge ever faced by Tudor England. Professor Parker is the Andreas Dorpalen Professor of History at the Ohio State University, a Fellow of the British Academy, and a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In 2012 the Royal Dutch Academy awarded him its biennial Heineken Foundation Prize for History, and two years later he won one of the three medals awarded by the British Academy for ‘a landmark academic achievement… which has transformed understanding of a particular subject’, for his book Global Crisis: war, climate change and catastrophe in the seventeenth century. His many distinguished works include The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500–1800 and, in conjunction with the underwater archaeologist Colin Martin, Armada: The Spanish Enterprise and England’s Deliverance in 1588. He was also a consultant and main contributor on the BBC series Armada (1988) and Armada: 12 Days to Save England (2015). The talk will take place at 2 pm on Saturday 15 August 2026 and will be accompanied by an exhibition as usual. Please contact Philip Marshall on 07946 041733 if you would like to attend”.

The Spanish Armada
2026-09-19 08:00 - 2026-09-20 17:00
This will be a reprise of our event in which we study the Spanish Armada campaign. Please contact Philip Marshall on 07946 041733 if you would like to attend.
