Author: George Washington
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799
Author: George Washington
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799: General index : O-Z ; List of letters
Author: George Washington
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
A Documentary History of the Battle of Germantown
Author: Donald Grey Brownlow
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Germantown, Battle of, Philadelphia, Pa., 1777
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Germantown, Battle of, Philadelphia, Pa., 1777
Languages : en
Pages : 174
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This collection of documents, including many previously unpublished, details the role of the Army engineers in the American Revolution.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.
The American Philatelist
Author:
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Category : Stamp collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 1038
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Stamp collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 1038
Book Description
Engineers of Independence
Author: Paul K. Walker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Chomolungma Sings the Blues
Author: Ed Douglas
Publisher: The Mountaineers Books
ISBN: 9780898868432
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1016
Book Description
Everest, a mountain known all around the world and surrounded by the tragic romanticism of climbers risking everything for a dream. Although much has been written on the feats and accomplishments of these climbers, what about the people who actually live in the shadow of the mountain and the ways cimbers and trekkers affect their lives? Ed Douglas spent time traveling in Nepal and Tibet, talking to politicians, environmentalists and moutaineers, to local people who live around the mountain they call Chomolungma, Goddess Mother of the World. This sensitive account of Douglas' travels explores the issues facing a region struggling to develop and change-issues brought on by the growing mountaineering and trekking industries, issues that go far beyond how to clear up all the piling rubbish climbers leave behind. With honesty and humor Chomolungma Sings the Blues sheds a new and different light on the mountain and its people.
Publisher: The Mountaineers Books
ISBN: 9780898868432
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1016
Book Description
Everest, a mountain known all around the world and surrounded by the tragic romanticism of climbers risking everything for a dream. Although much has been written on the feats and accomplishments of these climbers, what about the people who actually live in the shadow of the mountain and the ways cimbers and trekkers affect their lives? Ed Douglas spent time traveling in Nepal and Tibet, talking to politicians, environmentalists and moutaineers, to local people who live around the mountain they call Chomolungma, Goddess Mother of the World. This sensitive account of Douglas' travels explores the issues facing a region struggling to develop and change-issues brought on by the growing mountaineering and trekking industries, issues that go far beyond how to clear up all the piling rubbish climbers leave behind. With honesty and humor Chomolungma Sings the Blues sheds a new and different light on the mountain and its people.
The Saratoga Campaign
Author: William A. Griswold
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
ISBN: 1611688965
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
New discoveries enrich our understanding of a legendary campaign
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
ISBN: 1611688965
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
New discoveries enrich our understanding of a legendary campaign
The Price of Nationhood
Author: Jean Butenhoff Lee
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393036589
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
The Price of Nationhood reshapes the story of the American Revolution, bending the familiar contours imprinted by the New England revolutionary experience. At the same time, Jean Lee's narrative rewards us with history at the ground level, rich with the smells of the earth and sea in eighteenth-century coastal Maryland.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393036589
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
The Price of Nationhood reshapes the story of the American Revolution, bending the familiar contours imprinted by the New England revolutionary experience. At the same time, Jean Lee's narrative rewards us with history at the ground level, rich with the smells of the earth and sea in eighteenth-century coastal Maryland.
America's God and Country
Author: William J. Federer
Publisher: Amerisearch, Inc.
ISBN: 9781880563052
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
An Invaluable resource highlighting america's noble heritage, profound quotes from founding fathers, presidents, statesmen, scientists, constitutions, court decisions ... for use in speeches, papers, debates, essays ...
Publisher: Amerisearch, Inc.
ISBN: 9781880563052
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
An Invaluable resource highlighting america's noble heritage, profound quotes from founding fathers, presidents, statesmen, scientists, constitutions, court decisions ... for use in speeches, papers, debates, essays ...