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Letter from George Germain to Henry Clinton Regarding the Treatment of Loyalists and how to Enable Them to Reinforce British Rule in Small Areas
Draft from George Germain to Henry Clinton Regarding the Letter Bearer, a Loyalist Youth
Author: Separate Letter from George Germain to Henry Clinton Replying to Clinton's Concerns Over His Previous Dispatches Respecting the Use of Provincial Forces
Author: Letters from George Germain to Henry Clinton and Major General Jones Regarding the Latter's Request for a Leave of Absence and Compensation for Various Colonial Officials
Author: Private Letter from Henry Clinton to George Germain Containing Remarks Upon Germain's Previous Dispatches Respecting the Use of Provincial Forces
Author: Letter from George Germain to Henry Clinton Regarding Loyal Subjects and His Defence of South Carolina and Georgia
Author: George Germain to Henry Clinton Regarding Use of Loyalist Levies
Author: George Germain to Henry Clinton, Regarding a Loyalist Force that Can be Used to Disrupt Trade Along the Coast
Author: George Germain to Henry Clinton, Regarding a Memorial by a Loyalist
Author: Engineers of Independence
Author: Paul K. WalkerPublisher: 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This collection of documents, including many previously unpublished, details the role of the Army engineers in the American Revolution.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.