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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1476
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Index, The Papers of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789: Aachen - East Twinsey
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1476
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1476
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Index, the Papers of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789: Leacraft, W.-Pyttis
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1494
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1494
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Catalog of Manuscripts of the Massachusetts Historical Society
Author: Massachusetts Historical Society. Library
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Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 898
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Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 898
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Index, The Papers of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1502
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1502
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Engineers of Independence
Author: Paul K. Walker
Publisher: 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This collection of documents, including many previously unpublished, details the role of the Army engineers in the American Revolution.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.
Publisher: 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.
Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revoluntionary War
Author: Massachusetts. Office of the Secretary of State
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Category : Digital images
Languages : en
Pages : 982
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Category : Digital images
Languages : en
Pages : 982
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Valley Forge Historical Research Project
Author: Wayne K. Bodle
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 614
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 614
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The Papers of General Nathanael Greene
Author: Richard K. Showman
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 146962611X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 709
Book Description
These volumes, published in conjunction with the Rhode Island Historical Society, represent the result of an exhaustive search for documents relating to the life and career of Revolutionary War general Nathanael Greene. The papers--letters and documents received by Greene as well as those sent by him--are carefully edited and fully annotated. The editors reproduce many items in full but abstract papers that are of lesser significance. Greene, who served as quartermaster general of the army and later as commander of the forces fighting in the southern theater, is generally considered the ablest of Washington's generals. His papers are a vital source of information on the war itself as well as on the man.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 146962611X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 709
Book Description
These volumes, published in conjunction with the Rhode Island Historical Society, represent the result of an exhaustive search for documents relating to the life and career of Revolutionary War general Nathanael Greene. The papers--letters and documents received by Greene as well as those sent by him--are carefully edited and fully annotated. The editors reproduce many items in full but abstract papers that are of lesser significance. Greene, who served as quartermaster general of the army and later as commander of the forces fighting in the southern theater, is generally considered the ablest of Washington's generals. His papers are a vital source of information on the war itself as well as on the man.
Index, The Papers of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789: East Whiteland - Leacraft, G
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1492
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1492
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1777
Author: John S. Pancake
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817306870
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
"A revisionist view of the Revolution's most crucial year... it explodes many of the myths surrounding Burgoyne's Canadian expedition and Howe's Pennsylvania campaign. There is a wealth of fascinating detail in this book, including information on arms and supplies, rations for women camp followers, and even the numbers of carts (30-odd) carrying Burgoyne's luggage." --History Book Club Newsletter
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817306870
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
"A revisionist view of the Revolution's most crucial year... it explodes many of the myths surrounding Burgoyne's Canadian expedition and Howe's Pennsylvania campaign. There is a wealth of fascinating detail in this book, including information on arms and supplies, rations for women camp followers, and even the numbers of carts (30-odd) carrying Burgoyne's luggage." --History Book Club Newsletter