Author: Massachusetts Historical Society. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 898
Book Description
Catalog of Manuscripts of the Massachusetts Historical Society
Author: Massachusetts Historical Society. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 898
Book Description
Index, The Papers of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789: Quack - Zwolle
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1502
Book Description
Henry Knox
Author: Mark PulsPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1403984271
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
A comprehensive biography of military tactician and later the nation's first Secretary of War, Henry Knox, that chronicles his childhood, military service with the Boston Grenadier Corps, and appointment to Washington's cabinet.
Index, The Papers of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1482
Book Description
Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army During the War of the Revolution, April 1775, to December, 1783
Author: Francis Bernard HeitmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
Index, The Papers of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789: Aachen - East Twinsey
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1476
Book Description
The Papers of General Nathanael Greene: 11 July 1781-2 December 1781
Author: Nathanael GreenePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manuscripts, American
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
Volume 13. This thirteenth and final volume of the series devoted to the papers of General Nathanael Greene includes correspondence to and from Greene from the end of the Revolutionary War up to his death in June 1786. It concludes with an epilogue and an addendum of forty-six documents that have come to light since the volumes in which they would have appeared have been published.
Second Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore, Including the Additions Made Since 1882
Author: Johns Hopkins University. Peabody Institute. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Alexander Hamilton's Famous Report on Manufactures
Author: United States. Department of the TreasuryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manufactures
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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.
