and thanks of course to the haverford trust for supporting the speakers. i've had the pleasure of attending quite a few of them and it was a great experience. i hope this one will be a great experience for you as well. let me just click through the first slide. so, i would like to say a few general words about who they were, these thousands of troops who we call hessians. how they ended up in north america, and then i will give a few snapshots of the experiences over the course of the war. so, i want to start with a brief introduction. in a 17 70s and 1780's, as many as 40,000 german shoulders or hired to defend british imperial interests on four continents. in europe, in india, in south africa, and of course in america. the vast majority of them, at least 30,000 saw service in america. in august 1776, a german periodical, the german chronicle, noted optimistically that quote, soon the english would have to thank the germans a second time for the conquest of america. the editor was alluding to william pitt's famous reference to germany's role in the seven

i wanted to introduce representing haverford for a few. rebecca farnsworth, who is their president and institution portfolio manager. so rebecca, thank you very much for joining us here here. and for. hello, everyone. thank you. fellow aforementioned. my name is becky farnsworth and am delighted to be here representing the haverford trust company. haverford is an investment management firm located in radnor. we've $13 billion in assets under management. at haverford i'm an institutional portfolio manager which effectively means that i'm responsible for managing assets and serving as a trusted advisor to a number of our firm's nonprofit clients. i think we all feel very fortunate. live in a region that has such deep philanthropic roots and haverford has been committed to serving our nonprofit community since firm's inception over 40 years ago. and the greatest joy of my job is building deep strategic partnerships. our nonprofit clients and amazing organizations like the museum, the american revolution, who do such important work strengtheni

haverford is an investment management firm we have 13 billion dollars in bath under management. i'm a portfolio manager which means i'm responsible for managing investment assets and surveying his trusted adviser to a number of our firms non profit clients. i think we all feel very fortunate to live in a region that has such deep philanthropic routes and haverford has been committed to serving our nonprofit community since the firms inception. my the joy of my job is building deep strategic partnerships with our nonprofit clients and amazing organizations like museum of the american revolution who do such important work in strengthening the fabric of our communities. haverford has been a longtime partner of the museum, and it's very much a pleasure of our organization to once again sponsor the incredible, read the revolution speakers series and here at the museum. as the concluding speaker of this year's presentation program, we are all very much looking forward to hearing from doctor baer. thank you all for being here this evening. those in person and on zoom. and i will turn i

news out of washington, d.c., the january 6 committee has wrapped up its final public hearing and haverford former president donald trump to the justice department after unanimous vote approving their final report outlining criminal charges against the former president and his allies for the capitol riot. >> you will see that there are a number of other people named in. of course, that's ultimately going to be up to the department of you i say from the spin and others. would you guys be filling in the blank? the others now that the others are all contained in our report and that's a judgment that's going to have to be made by the department of justice about whether they have sufficient evidence. >> among the crimes the panel cited are obstruction of an official proceeding, aiding an insurrection and conspiracy to defraud the united states. the committee also voted 9 to 0 to approve its final report, which will also include findings, interview transcripts and legislative recommendations. the report expected to be released in full on wednesday. coming up at 12 30 will be speaking live with ou

safety investigators say they became trapped by current caused by the we�*re in haverford west last autumn in that raid, one which i shall never forget. johnnyjohnson was the bomb aimer on his lancaster and he would lie flat on its stomach in the front of the aircraft here. on the night of the raid, once they were over the target, he wasn�*t happy with the approach so he asked his pilot to go round again and again, leading to some anxious comments from the rest of the crew. dave rodger in the rear turret, after about the sixth or seventh dummy run said, "won�*t somebody get that bomb out of here?" to me, to not do it properly was a waste of time, so on the tenth run, we were down at 30 feet and i said, "bomb gone". "thank christ!", came from the rear turret. his squadron�*s exploits were immortalised on film — a barely believable but true story of an operation to destroy german dams by skimming bombs off the water below. we're in shock and awe at what they achieved, to be flying at night, at 60 feet in mountainous terrain, to drop an ingenious weapon that had never been used before, it's g