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Mr Knox's Letter to Mr Stephens Referring to the Intention for German Recruits to be Sent Aboard the ' Springfield' to Supplement to the 60th Regiment in St Augustine
Author: Mr Knox's Letter to Mr Stephens Referring to Directions Given to Brunswick Recruits and the Battalion of the Prince of Anhault Expected from Stade
Author: Mr Stephen's Letter to Mr Knox Transmitting Orders that a Detachment of Seventy Hessians and New York Provincials Now at Plymouth be Put Aboard Transports Carrying British and German Recruits Bound for New York
Author: Two Letters Sent to William Knox by Mr Stephens from the Admiralty Office Referring to Clothing Supplies Sent to German Troops, the Return of the 'Phoenix' from Georgia and the Need for Additional Ships to Protect Savannah from Rebel Forces
Author: Mr Knox's Letter to Mr Stephens Referring to Stores to be Sent to North America Aboard the 'Peggy'
Author: Two Letters Sent to Mr Knox by Mr Stephens Referring to the Arrival of the 'Bute', and the Readiness of the 'St Helena' and 'Springfield' Transports at Deptford to Receive Stores Aboard
Author: Mr Knox's Letter to Mr Stephens Referring to Loyal Subjects Taken as Passengers Aboard an American Hips Called the 'Hope' and Seeking that They be Set at Liberty
Author: Six Letters Sent to Mr Knox by Mr Stephens Referring to Transports Due to Convey Clothing and Ordnance Stores to West Florida, and to a Letter of Marque Against Spanish Forces Sent to Governor Wright
Author: US Army Order of Battle, 1919-1941: The services : air service, engineers, and special troops, 1919-41
Author: Steven E. ClayEngineers 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This collection of documents, including many previously unpublished, details the role of the Army engineers in the American Revolution.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.