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| YEAR | DATES | CONVENTION DIRECTOR | LOCATION | THEME | ATTENDANCE | PROGRAM COVER | LINK TO PHOTO ALBUM |
| 2026 | Feb. 5-8 | Frank Preziosa | Lancaster Host Lancaster, PA |
Wild, Wild West | 1021 | ||
| 2025 | Feb. 28-Mar. 2 | Frank Preziosa | Eisenhower Hotel & Conference Center, Gettysburg, PA |
“Guts & Glory” – The Civil War 1865 | 897 | ||
| 2024 | Not Held | ||||||
| 2023 | Mar. 9-12 | Joby Miller | Valley Forge Casino Resort King of Prussia PA |
America: Founding and Revolution, 1607 to 1788 | 1,132 |  |
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| 2022 | Cancelled – COVID | ||||||
| 2021 | Cancelled – COVID | ||||||
| 2020 | Mar 12-15 | Heather Blush | Lancaster Host, Lancaster, PA | Animals of War: Camels, Dogs, Elephants, Horse & More | 1,438* |  |
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| 2019 | Mar 14-17 | Heather Blush | Lancaster Host, Lancaster, PA | Extreme Terrain: Mountain Warfare | 1,812 |  |
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| 2018 | Mar 15-18 | Heather Blush | Lancaster Host, Lancaster, PA | Holy Wars and those that fought them | 1,939 |  |
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| 2017 | Mar 16-19 | Frank Preziosa | Lancaster Host, Lancaster, PA | A Good Day to Die Hard | 2,009 |  |
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| 2016 | Mar 17-20 | Frank Preziosa | Lancaster Host, Lancaster, PA | Centuries of War 1816.1916.2016 | 1,681 |  |
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| 2015 | Mar 5-8 | Frank Preziosa | Lancaster Host, Lancaster, PA | The Beginning of the End of the Civil War, 1865 | 1,693 |  |
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| 2014 | Mar 7-9 | Frank Preziosa | Lancaster Host, Lancaster, PA | Forgotten History: Not So Famous Battles & Conflicts | 1,951 |  |
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| 2013 | Mar 8-10 | Frank Preziosa | Lancaster Host, Lancaster, PA | Warrior Women | 1,937 |  |
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| 2012 | Mar 9-11 | Frank Preziosa | Lancaster Host, Lancaster, PA | 1812: a World at War | 2,130 |  |
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| 2011 | Mar 10-13 | Frank Preziosa | Lancaster Host, Lancaster, PA | South America: a struggle for Independence |  |
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| 2010 | Mar 11-14 | Frank Preziosa | Lancaster Host, Lancaster, PA | Napoleon’s Enemies, 1810 |  |
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| 2009 | Mar 12-15 | Frank Preziosa | Lancaster Host, Lancaster, PA | Revolution – 3000 Years of Rebellion, Civil War & Revolutionary Change |  |
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| 2008 | Mar 7-9 | Frank Preziosa | Lancaster Host, Lancaster, PA | Golden Age of Piracy |  |
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| 2007 | Mar 16-18 | Walt O’Hara | Lancaster Host, Lancaster, PA | The Road and the Wall: the Greatest Feats of the Military Engineer throughout History |  |
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| 2006 | Mar 17-19 | Walt O’Hara | Lancaster Host, Lancaster, PA | The Rise and Fall of Rome: a Millenia of Warfare |  |
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| 2005 | Apr 8-10 | Walt O’Hara | Lancaster Host, Lancaster, PA | Dangerous Decades: From Empires to Isms, 1914-1939 |  |
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| 2004 | Mar 12-14 | John Drye | Lancaster Host, Lancaster, PA | Of Steam, Iron, and Blood: Warfare and Change in the Age of Transformation, 1850 – 1906 | 1,730 |  |
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| 2003 | Mar 7-9 | John Drye | Lancaster Host, Lancaster, PA | Kingdoms, Caliphates & Empires – Warfare in the Middle Ages, 700-1400AD | 1,273 |  |
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| 2002 | Apr 19-21 | John Drye | Lancaster Host, Lancaster, PA | Dark Ages | 1,598 | ||
| 2001 | Mar 9-11 | John Drye | Lancaster Host, Lancaster, PA | The American War of Independence | 1,570 |  |
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| 2000 | Lancaster Host, Lancaster, PA | 1,644 | |||||
| 1999 | Lancaster Host, Lancaster, PA | 1,835 | |||||
| 1998 | Lancaster Host, Lancaster, PA | 1,200 | |||||
| 1997 | Lancaster Host, Lancaster, PA | 1,173 | |||||
| 1996 | Mar 8-10 | Lancaster Host, Lancaster, PA | 2,030 |  |
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| 1995 | Mar 3-5 | Lancaster Host, Lancaster, PA | 1,920 |  |
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| 1994 | Mar 11-13 | Lancaster Host, Lancaster, PA |  |
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| 1993 | Mar 5-7 | Lancaster Host, Lancaster, PA |  |
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| 1992 | Mar 6-8 | Lancaster Host, Lancaster, PA |  |
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| 1991 | Lancaster Host, Lancaster, PA |  |