The 1805 Dispatches #25.04 August 2025 2 of 7 MARE NOSTRUM CONFERENCE AT UNIVERSITÉ PAUL-VALÉRY IN MONTPELLIER Fairfax, Virginia. I hope to see many of our members living in Maryland, Virginia and DC there. Finally, I would be terribly adrift if I didn’t mention that October is the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States Navy– 13 October 1775. I, along with many of our US members, who are either navyveterans or actively serving, will be attending the many celebrations to be held across the country. https:// www.navy.mil/Navy-250/ Thankfully, we’ll have November to recoup, and just in time for the December holidays. Wishing you all a pleasant next few months until my next View from the Bridge. Yours aye, Earlier this month, Club members Natacha Abriat and Captain Michael Barritt both spoke at the 'Mare Nostrum' conference at Université Paul-Valéry in Montpellier, which explored representations of the Mediterranean in the Englishspeaking worlds of the 17th and 18th centuries. Michael delivered the inaugural lecture, "Charting the Mediterranean Sea - 'at a loss for longitudes and latitudes to dress it by'", while Natacha presented a paper based on her Master's research: "'Here we always keep the Sea': Between wandering and performance, the daily life of Royal Navy officers in the Mediterranean (1793-1805)." They also had the pleasure of meeting Dr Marcandria Peraut, who wrote his PhD thesis on memory in Corsica from the 18th to the 21st century, and specialises in the history and historical anthropology of Corsica. Marcandria presented a fascinating lecture on James Mario Matra (1746-1806) an American Loyalist navigator and explorer who tried to become viceroy of Corsica in place of Sir Gilbert Elliot. He'll soon take up a postdoctoral fellowship at the Maison française d'Oxford, researching connections between the Mediterranean and Caribbean at the end of the 18th century. We're proud to see Club members contributing to new historical research and we hope to welcome Dr Peraut to our Portsmouth conference this October!
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