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: 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This collection of documents, including many previously unpublished, details the role of the Army engineers in the American Revolution.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This collection of documents, including many previously unpublished, details the role of the Army engineers in the American Revolution.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: 3375167008
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 593
Book Description
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375167008
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 593
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
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.
The History of the Corps of Royal Sappers and Miners
Author: Thomas William John Connolly
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Essayons
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781940804590
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9781940804590
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The History of the Corps of Royal Sappers and Miners
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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History of the Royal Sappers and Miners
Author: Thomas William John Connolly
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description