Author: Barbara J. Knight Cruchon
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Hulls in the American Revolution, 1775-1783
Author: Barbara J. Knight Cruchon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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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This collection of documents, including many previously unpublished, details the role of the Army engineers in the American Revolution.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This collection of documents, including many previously unpublished, details the role of the Army engineers in the American Revolution.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.
Location Index for Hulls in the American Revolution, 1775-1783
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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A Military Journal During the American Revolutionary War
Author: James Thacher
Publisher: Boston : Cottons & Barnard
ISBN:
Category : American War of Independence, 1775-1783
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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Publisher: Boston : Cottons & Barnard
ISBN:
Category : American War of Independence, 1775-1783
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution
Author: William Cooper Nell
Publisher: Andesite Press
ISBN: 9781298490308
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. 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. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. 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.
Publisher: Andesite Press
ISBN: 9781298490308
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. 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. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. 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.
YALE AND HER HONOR-ROLL IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775-1783
Author: HENRY P. JOHNSTON
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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Marines In The Revolution
Author: Charles Richard Smith
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359127193
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Marines In The Revolution by Charles Richard Smith; Charles H Waterhouse "Traces the activities of one special group of Marines; the successes and failures of the group as a whole, and the fundamental aspects of modern Marine amphibious doctrine which grew out of Continental Marine experience during the eight-year fight for American independence."
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359127193
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Marines In The Revolution by Charles Richard Smith; Charles H Waterhouse "Traces the activities of one special group of Marines; the successes and failures of the group as a whole, and the fundamental aspects of modern Marine amphibious doctrine which grew out of Continental Marine experience during the eight-year fight for American independence."
Westchester County During the American Revolution, 1775-1783
Author: Otto Hufeland
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Category : Westchester County (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Category : Westchester County (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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The British Invasion of Delaware, Aug-Sep 1777
Author: Gerald J. Kauffman
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1304287165
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
During the American War for Independence in Augustand September, 1777, the British invaded Delaware aspart of an end-run campaign to defeat GeorgeWashington and the Americans and capture the capitalat Philadelphia. For a few short weeks the hills andstreams in and around Newark and Iron Hill and at Cooch's Bridge along the Christina River were the focus of worldhistory as the British marched through the Diamond State between the Chesapeake Bay and Brandywine Creek.This is the story of the British invasion of Delaware,one of the lesser known but critical watershedmoments in American history.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1304287165
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
During the American War for Independence in Augustand September, 1777, the British invaded Delaware aspart of an end-run campaign to defeat GeorgeWashington and the Americans and capture the capitalat Philadelphia. For a few short weeks the hills andstreams in and around Newark and Iron Hill and at Cooch's Bridge along the Christina River were the focus of worldhistory as the British marched through the Diamond State between the Chesapeake Bay and Brandywine Creek.This is the story of the British invasion of Delaware,one of the lesser known but critical watershedmoments in American history.
History of Maritime Connecticut During the American Revolution, 1775-1783
Author: Louis Frank Middlebrook
Publisher:
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Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 426
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Publisher:
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Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 426
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