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Languages : en
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Governor Martin's Letters to George Germain Discussing Delays to Transports of Troops Sent to the Carolinas and Leaders of Patriot Groups Following the Continental Congress
Governor Martin's Letter Congratulating George Germain on Having Been Appointed to Serve as a Secretary of State, Voicing His Disappointment to Delays to Military Expeditions, and Pledging to Support Legislation Banning Trade with All Colonies in Rebellion
Author: Governor Martin's Letters to George Germain Reporting Upon the Death of a Mr James E Bowan Following Vigorous Treatment Suffered at Hands of Rebels Before Taking Refuge Aboard Royal Ships
Author: Three Letters Sent to Governor Wright by George Germain Discussing Diminished Rebellious Activity in South Carolina, the Number of Abandoned Estates in Georgia, and the Organisation of Indian Department Following Death of Mr Stuart
Author: George Germain's Letter to Governor Howe Discussing the Miscarriage of Dispatches and Subsequent Delay to Supplies Sent for His Troops and Transports of Military Reinforcements
Author: Engineers of Independence
Author: Paul K. WalkerPublisher: 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This collection of documents, including many previously unpublished, details the role of the Army engineers in the American Revolution.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 Staff Ride Handbook for the Battle of Kings Mountain, 7 October 1780
Author: Harold Skinner (Jr.)Publisher:
ISBN: 9781940804750
Category : American loyalists
Languages : en
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"Armies of British Loyalists and Patriot militiamen fought the Battle of Kings Mountain, located about eight miles northeast of modern day Blacksburg, South Carolina, on the afternoon of 7 October 1780. Insignificant in terms of size, the Patriot victory at Kings Mountain upset the British attempts to gain permanent control of the Carolinas-and by extension fundamentally changed the course of the war in the South. The strategic and operational implications tied to the Kings Mountain battle will provide military professionals much to ponder about the nature of irregular conflict and counterinsurgency in the modern era. When viewed within the context of the British strategic goals for the Southern Campaign, the Patriot victory at Kings Mountain destroyed the British center of gravity, a well-organized Loyalist militia capable of securing South Carolina in the absence of British regulars. Not only did the disaster of Kings Mountain demoralize the surviving Loyalists, but it convinced the British ground commander, Lord Charles Cornwallis, to curtail attempts to recruit additional Loyalist militia regiments. Absent an effective Loyalist militia, the British did not have the manpower to both pacify South Carolina and continue the process of conquering the vast territory that lay between Charleston and the Chesapeake. By the time Cornwallis attempted to recruit fresh Loyalist militiamen in the time period before and after the Guilford Courthouse battle, few Tories were willing to risk their lives and property in service to the King"--
Marines In The Revolution
Author: Charles Richard SmithPublisher: 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."
Revolutionary Summer
Author: Joseph J. EllisPublisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307701220
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of First Family presents a revelatory account of America's declaration of independence and the political and military responses on both sides throughout the summer of 1776 that influenced key decisions and outcomes.
The State Records of North Carolina: 1776-[1777] and supplement, 1730-1776
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Author: North CarolinaPublisher:
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Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 876
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