Robert A. Selig is a historical consultant who received his Ph.D. in history from the Universität Würzburg in Germany in 1988.
He is a specialist on the role of French forces under the comte de Rochambeau during the American War of Independence and serves as project historian to the National Park Service as well as state and private organizations for the Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route National Historic Trail Project.
For this project he researched and wrote surveys and resource inventories for the nine states through which American and French forces marched in 1781 and 1782. Among his publications connected with this project is Hussars in Lebanon! A Connecticut Town and Lauzun’s Legion during the American Revolution, 1780-1781 (Lebanon, 2004).
He has published more than 100 articles in scholarly and popular history magazines such as the William and Mary Quarterly, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Journal of Caribbean History, American Heritage, Naval History, Military History Quarterly, Colonial Williamsburg, and the Journal of the Johannes Schwalm Historical Association as well as chapters in various books and anthologies.
His most recent publications include "L'expéditions particulière and the American War of Independence, 1780-1783." In: Waging War in America 1775-1783. Operational Challenges of Five Armies Don N. Hagist,ed. "The Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route National Historic Trail." Newport History. Journal of the Newport Historical Society 98 (Winter 2022/Spring 2023), pp.1-30. De Newport à Yorktown, à la Victoire et a la Gloire: la Route Washington-Rochambeau et la Victoire du 19 octobre 1781, Actes du Colloque international: Victoire de Yorktown et naissance de l'amitié franco-américaine Bulletin de la Société Archéologique Scientifique & Littéraire du Vendomois (2022), pp. 99-104. "En avant to Victory: The Allied March to Yorktown June-October 1781." In: The Ten Key Campaigns of the American Revolution Edward G. Lengel, ed. (Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishinbg, 2020), pp. 199-215.
His honors and awards include the ordre des palmes académiques (August 2011) the Distinguished Patriot Award, National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (September 2012) the médaille d'Honneur du Souvenir Français (2022) and the Ordre National du Mérite (2022).
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