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Author: René Chartrand Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1472814479 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 152
Book Description
Though primarily fought in the field, the American Revolution saw fortifications play an important part in some of the key campaigns of the war. Field fortifications were developed around major towns including Boston, New York and Savannah, while the frontier forts at Stanwix, Niagara and Cumberland were to all be touched by the war. This book details all the types of fortification used throughout the conflict, the engineers on all sides who constructed and maintained them, and the actions fought around and over them.
Author: René Chartrand Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1472814479 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 152
Book Description
Though primarily fought in the field, the American Revolution saw fortifications play an important part in some of the key campaigns of the war. Field fortifications were developed around major towns including Boston, New York and Savannah, while the frontier forts at Stanwix, Niagara and Cumberland were to all be touched by the war. This book details all the types of fortification used throughout the conflict, the engineers on all sides who constructed and maintained them, and the actions fought around and over them.
Author: René Chartrand Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1472814460 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 66
Book Description
Though primarily fought in the field, the American Revolution saw fortifications play an important part in some of the key campaigns of the war. Field fortifications were developed around major towns including Boston, New York and Savannah, while the frontier forts at Stanwix, Niagara and Cumberland were to all be touched by the war. This book details all the types of fortification used throughout the conflict, the engineers on all sides who constructed and maintained them, and the actions fought around and over them.
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This collection of documents, including many previously unpublished, details the role of the Army engineers in the American Revolution.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: John Christopher Schwab Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781546304418 Category : Languages : en Pages : 70
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Under the title The Revolutionary History of Fort Number Eight, on Morris Heights, New York City, Professor John C. Schwab has privately printed a narrative of the military events of the Revolutionary war on Manhattan Island and in Westchester County, with especial reference to the relation of those transactions to the fortification named, in which local attachments give him special interest. The narrative is carefully constructed out of general materials on the one hand and on the other hand those of a local and private nature; and is illustrated by a map. A brief history of the manor of Fordham precedes. The amount of matter directly relating to Fort Number Eight is not large. --The American Historical Review, Vol. 3
Author: John Christopher Schwab Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: 9781082596209 Category : Languages : en Pages : 72
Book Description
Under the title "The Revolutionary History of Fort Number Eight, on Morris Heights, New York City," Professor John C. Schwab has privately printed (New Haven, pp. 66) a narrative of the military events of the Revolutionary war on Manhattan Island and in Westchester County, with especial reference to the relation of those transactions to the fortification named, in which local attachments give him special interest. The narrative is carefully constructed out of general materials on the one hand and on the other hand those of a local and private nature; and is illustrated by a map. A brief history of the manor of Fordham precedes. The amount of matter directly relating to Fort Number Eight is not large.--"The American Historical Review"
Author: René Chartrand
Author: René Chartrand
Author: René Chartrand
Author: Leonard Edward Adams
Author: Robert B. Roberts
Author: James Thacher
Author: Merle G. Sheffield
Author: William H. Carr
Author: Paul K. Walker
Author: John Christopher Schwab
Author: John Christopher Schwab