Author: John AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Thoughts on Government: Applicable to the Present State of the American Colonies
Author: John AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
History of the Colony of New Haven, Before and After the Union with Connecticut
Author: Edward Rodolphus LambertPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Branford (Conn. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Prominent Families of New York
Author: Lyman Horace WeeksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts: History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts. History of Hampshire County
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Connecticut River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 706
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This collection of documents, including many previously unpublished, details the role of the Army engineers in the American Revolution.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.
Western Massachusetts
Author: John Hoyt LockwoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 826
Book Description
The Declaration of Independence
Author: Carl Lotus BeckerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural law
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Türk tütünleri meǧmūʻasi
Author: Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Author: William Richard CutterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Middlesex County (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 856
Book Description
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