Author: Thomas William John Connolly
Publisher: London : Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain History, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The History of the Corps of Royal Sappers and Miners
Author: Thomas William John Connolly
Publisher: London : Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain History, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Publisher: London : Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain History, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
History of the Royal Sappers and Miners
Author: T.W.J. Connolly
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375162693
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1857.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375162693
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1857.
History of the Royal Sappers and Miners
Author: Thomas William John Connolly
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
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This collection of documents, including many previously unpublished, details the role of the Army engineers in the American Revolution.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.
History of the Royal Sappers and Miners
Author: T.W.J. Connolly
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375162685
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1857.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375162685
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1857.
Triumphs & Disasters
Author: Andrew Bamford
Publisher: Frontline Books
ISBN: 1473880467
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
Sir Thomas Grahams Netherlands Campaign of 18131814 has produced a surprisingly rich crop of memoirs and letters. This compelling new book brings together six of the shorter accounts, several of them never before seen in print, to help shed new light on the triumphs and disasters of these forgotten operations. Mixing formal reports with lively personal narratives, and contemporary letters and diaries with later reflections, this selection covers all the major actions of the campaign and the authors range from one of Grahams senior staff to an NCO in one of his infantry battalions. In addition to explanatory notes throughout, detailed appendices resolve some of the controversies arising from these and other eyewitness accounts, helping to increase our understanding of these little-known but important operations. Carefully researched and expertly compiled by historian Andrew Bamford, this is a valuable and absorbing new source, which will be of great interest to any student of the period.
Publisher: Frontline Books
ISBN: 1473880467
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
Sir Thomas Grahams Netherlands Campaign of 18131814 has produced a surprisingly rich crop of memoirs and letters. This compelling new book brings together six of the shorter accounts, several of them never before seen in print, to help shed new light on the triumphs and disasters of these forgotten operations. Mixing formal reports with lively personal narratives, and contemporary letters and diaries with later reflections, this selection covers all the major actions of the campaign and the authors range from one of Grahams senior staff to an NCO in one of his infantry battalions. In addition to explanatory notes throughout, detailed appendices resolve some of the controversies arising from these and other eyewitness accounts, helping to increase our understanding of these little-known but important operations. Carefully researched and expertly compiled by historian Andrew Bamford, this is a valuable and absorbing new source, which will be of great interest to any student of the period.
Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, &c
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 860
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 860
Book Description
Note Book for all Infantry Officers, concerned in the examinations for promotions, etc
Author: T. E. KNOX
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Catalogue of the Liverpool Free Public Library
Author: Free Public Library, Museum, and Walker Art Gallery (LIVERPOOL)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The Bengal Sappers 1803-2003
Author: George Cooper
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780903530248
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780903530248
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description