Author: Massachusetts Historical Society. Library
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Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 898
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Catalog of Manuscripts of the Massachusetts Historical Society
Author: Massachusetts Historical Society. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 898
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 898
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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This collection of documents, including many previously unpublished, details the role of the Army engineers in the American Revolution.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This collection of documents, including many previously unpublished, details the role of the Army engineers in the American Revolution.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.
King of Battle
Author: Boyd L. Dastrup
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Category : Artillery, Field and mountain
Languages : en
Pages : 398
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Category : Artillery, Field and mountain
Languages : en
Pages : 398
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Prominent Families of New York
Author: Lyman Horace Weeks
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Quantico
Author: Charles A. Fleming
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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US Army Order of Battle, 1919-1941: The services : air service, engineers, and special troops, 1919-41
Author: Steven E. Clay
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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An Appeal to the Justice and Interests of the People of Great Britain
Author: Arthur Lee
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Navy-yard, Washington
Author: United States. Navy Department
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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British Manuscripts Project
Author: Library of Congress. Processing Department
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Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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Türk tütünleri meǧmūʻasi
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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