Author: T. W. J. ConnollyPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375167008
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 593
Book Description
History of the Royal Sappers and Miners
Author: T. W. J. ConnollyPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375167008
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 593
Book Description
History of the Royal Sappers and Miners
Author: Thomas William John ConnollyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
The History of the Corps of Royal Sappers and Miners
Author: Thomas William John ConnollyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Follow the Sapper
Author: Gerald NapierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
History of the Royal Sappers and Miners
Author: Thomas William John ConnollyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
History of the Royal Sappers and Miners, from the Formation of the Corps in March 1772, to the Date when Its Designation was Changed to that of Royal Engineerings in October 1856
Author: Thomas William J. ConnollyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
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This collection of documents, including many previously unpublished, details the role of the Army engineers in the American Revolution.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 Bengal Sappers 1803-2003
Author: George CooperPublisher:
ISBN: 9780903530248
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
History of the Royal Sappers and Miners
Author: T.W.J. ConnollyPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375162685
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1857.
Battle Beneath the Trenches
Author: Robert JohnsPublisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473855306
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
Undermining the positions of the enemy is one of the most ancient activities. For almost 3000 years even before 1914, it was a popular siege-breaking technique. During the Great War, arguably the greatest siege the world had ever seen, it presented a conflict environment that perfectly favoured the skills of the military miner. During 1915, the Western Front was established as a static line that grew into a huge network of defence-in-depth earthworks. Siege conditions demanded siege tactics and as the ground was everywhere mineable, the Western Front was a prime candidate for underground warfare.Royal Engineer tunnelling companies were specialist units of the Corps of Royal Engineers within the British Army, formed to dig attacking tunnels under enemy lines during the First World War. The Cornish Miners were one of these specialist units recruited from the tin mines of Cornwall.In February 1915, eight Tunnelling Companies were created and operational in Flanders from March 1915. By mid-1916, the British Army had around 25,000 trained tunnellers, mostly volunteers taken from mining communities. This is their story.