John Fowke is the Most Interesting Man in English Civil War London (14 min.)

Merchant adventures and military revolutions

Oct 26, 2023
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This is a rough-cut video version of the presentation I am making today at the Ohio Valley History Conference. John Fowke is an understudied character because historians have missed his role in the military revolution that took place in London.

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