Author: Wallace Bruce
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Category : Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.)
Languages : en
Pages : 108

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Author: Wallace Bruce
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781375593960
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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Author: Wallace Bruce
Publisher:
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Category : Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.)
Languages : en
Pages : 2

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Author: Wallace Bruce
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781017010992
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author: Wallace Bruce
Publisher:
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Category : Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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Author: Wallace Bruce
Publisher:
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Category : Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.)
Languages : en
Pages : 84

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Category : Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Benson John Lossing
Publisher: Black Dome Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496

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Lossing unforgettably captured pre-Civil War America, when NYC numbered 300,000 people, and steamboats and railroads plied the Hudson River and its banks. The Hudson Valley was pastureland and farmland surrounding a few sleepy villages and a handful of bustling river ports, and Revolutionary War exploits were still a hot topic of conversation.

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: James Hammond Trumbull
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Category : Hartford County (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 726

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