History Talk- Hodges’ Scout: Lingering Questions over “an Underreported Scrape in the Woods,” 1756

Len Travers, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts will discuss the process of constructing history from the fragments that survive centuries.

In his fascinating book Hodges’ Scout: a Lost Patrol of the French and Indian War, historian Len Travers tells the long forgotten story of an ambushed fifty-man patrol and the fates of the survivors including a young man from Cape Cod. Join Travers as he recounts this captivating story and describes the ways he pieced it together using diverse and often conflicting centuries-old evidence.