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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1502
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Index, The Papers of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789
Index, the Papers of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789: Leacraft, W.-Pyttis
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ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1494
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Index, The Papers of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789: Quack - Zwolle
Author: Index, The Papers of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789: Aachen - East Twinsey
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1476
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The Correspondence and Public Papers of John Jay ...: 1781-1782
Author: John JaySale Catalogues
Author: American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Index, The Papers of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789: East Whiteland - Leacraft, G
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This collection of documents, including many previously unpublished, details the role of the Army engineers in the American Revolution.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 Framers' Coup
Author: Michael J. KlarmanPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019994203X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 881
Book Description
Flaws in the Articles of Confederation -- Economic turmoil in the states and the road to Philadelphia -- The Constitutional Convention -- Slavery and the Constitutional Constitution -- Critics of the Constitution: the Antifederalists -- The ratifying contest -- The Bill of Rights -- Conclusion
Prominent Families of New York
Author: Lyman Horace WeeksPublisher:
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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