Author: Jack P. Greene
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9780393092295
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 583

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The growing conviction in London that measures had to be undertaken at the end of the French and Indian war to shore up British authority in the colonies was revealed by the stream of proposals for imperial reform that poured from the pens of Crown officials and other interested observers during the early 1760s.

Author: Paul K. Walker
Publisher: The Minerva Group, Inc.
ISBN: 9781410201737
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424

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This collection of documents, including many previously unpublished, details the role of the Army engineers in the American Revolution. Lacking trained military engineers, the Americans relied heavily on foreign officers, mostly from France, for sorely needed technical assistance. Native Americans joined the foreign engineer officers to plan and carry out offensive and defensive operations, direct the erection of fortifications, map vital terrain, and lay out encampments. During the war Congress created the Corps of Engineers with three companies of engineer troops as well as a separate geographer's department to assist the engineers with mapping. Both General George Washington and Major General Louis Lebéque Duportail, his third and longest serving Chief Engineer, recognized the disadvantages of relying on foreign powers to fill the Army's crucial need for engineers. America, they contended, must train its own engineers for the future. Accordingly, at the war's end, they suggested maintaining a peacetime engineering establishment and creating a military academy. However, Congress rejected the proposals, and the Corps of Engineers and its companies of sappers and miners mustered out of service. Eleven years passed before Congress authorized a new establishment, the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers.

Author: United States. Naval History Division
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Reuben Gold Thwaites
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Category : Dunmore's Expedition, 1774
Languages : en
Pages : 516

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Author: R. W. Gibbes
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375166974
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 314

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Author: Robert Gibbes
Publisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 142901959X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 310

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Author: Robert Wilson Gibbes
Publisher:
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Category : South Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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Author: American revolution
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Author: Robert Wilson Gibbes
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Category : South Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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Author: Robert Wilson Gibbes
Publisher:
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Category : South Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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