Author: John K. Robertson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780917012006
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
John K. Robertson has uncovered and transcribed the extant proceedings of committees of the Rhode Island Assembly from 1775 to 1782 which met between sessions of the Assembly to perform the legislative function necessary to prosecute the war. These legislative records provide an in-depth view of how the war was supported and fills in knowledge gaps for historians and all readers interested in those fateful years.
Proceedings of the Recess Committee of the Rhode-Island General Assembly 1775-1776 and the Rhode-Island Council of War 1776-1782
Author: John K. Robertson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780917012006
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
John K. Robertson has uncovered and transcribed the extant proceedings of committees of the Rhode Island Assembly from 1775 to 1782 which met between sessions of the Assembly to perform the legislative function necessary to prosecute the war. These legislative records provide an in-depth view of how the war was supported and fills in knowledge gaps for historians and all readers interested in those fateful years.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780917012006
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
John K. Robertson has uncovered and transcribed the extant proceedings of committees of the Rhode Island Assembly from 1775 to 1782 which met between sessions of the Assembly to perform the legislative function necessary to prosecute the war. These legislative records provide an in-depth view of how the war was supported and fills in knowledge gaps for historians and all readers interested in those fateful years.
Engineers of Independence
Author: Paul K. Walker
Publisher: 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This collection of documents, including many previously unpublished, details the role of the Army engineers in the American Revolution.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.
Publisher: 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 Campaign of 1776 Around New York and Brooklyn
Author: Henry Phelps Johnston
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Long Island, Battle of, 1776
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Long Island, Battle of, 1776
Languages : en
Pages : 562
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A Short History of Rhode Island
Author: George Washington Greene
Publisher:
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Category : Rhode Island
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rhode Island
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Naval Documents of the American Revolution
Author: United States. Naval History Division
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Council of Censors
Author: Lewis Hamilton Meader
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
The Judicial and Civil History of Connecticut
Author: Dwight Loomis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 784
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ISBN:
Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
The Doolittle Family in America
Author: William Frederick Doolittle
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781016855594
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781016855594
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Armed Forces Officer
Author: Richard Moody Swain
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160937583
Category : Study Aids
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
In 1950, when he commissioned the first edition of The Armed Forces Officer, Secretary of Defense George C. Marshall told its author, S.L.A. Marshall, that "American military officers, of whatever service, should share common ground ethically and morally." In this new edition, the authors methodically explore that common ground, reflecting on the basics of the Profession of Arms, and the officer's special place and distinctive obligations within that profession and especially to the Constitution.
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160937583
Category : Study Aids
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
In 1950, when he commissioned the first edition of The Armed Forces Officer, Secretary of Defense George C. Marshall told its author, S.L.A. Marshall, that "American military officers, of whatever service, should share common ground ethically and morally." In this new edition, the authors methodically explore that common ground, reflecting on the basics of the Profession of Arms, and the officer's special place and distinctive obligations within that profession and especially to the Constitution.
Beverly Privateers in the American Revolution
Author: Octavius Thorndike Howe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Beverly (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Beverly (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description