Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ship registers
Languages : en
Pages : 926
Book Description
Handy List of Owners, Captains and Engineers of about 2000 Vessels of the Great Lakes
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ship registers
Languages : en
Pages : 926
Book Description
Canadiana
Author: Marine Review and Marine Record
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marine engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 890
Book Description
Includes section "Book Reviews".
National Union Catalog
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
Canadian Railway and Marine World
Author: MULS, a Union List of Serials
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
Engineering
Author: Army-Navy-Air Force Register and Defense Times
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 1026
Book Description
Engineers of Independence
Author: Paul K. WalkerPublisher: The Minerva Group, Inc.
ISBN: 9781410201737
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
This collection of documents, including many previously unpublished, details the role of the Army engineers in the American Revolution.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.
