Author: United States. Naval History DivisionPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages :
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Naval Documents of the American Revolution
Author: United States. Naval History DivisionPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Continental Army
Author: Robert K. WrightPublisher: Washington, D.C. : Center of Military History, United States Army
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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A narrative analysis of the complex evolution of the Continental Army, with the lineages of the 177 individual units that comprised the Army, and fourteen charts depicting regimental organization.
Preliminary Inventory of the War Department Collection of Revolutionary War Records
Author: United States. National Archives and Records ServicePublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Rolls of the Soldiers in the Revolutionary War, 1775 to 1783
Author: VermontPublisher: Rutland, Vt. : Tuttle
ISBN:
Category : Digital images
Languages : en
Pages : 958
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The Heath Papers
Author: William HeathPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 558
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Spies, Patriots, and Traitors
Author: Kenneth A. DaiglerPublisher: Georgetown University Press
ISBN: 1626160511
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Students and enthusiasts of American history are familiar with the Revolutionary War spies Nathan Hale and Benedict Arnold, but few studies have closely examined the wider intelligence efforts that enabled the colonies to gain their independence. Spies, Patriots, and Traitors provides readers with a fascinating, well-documented, and highly readable account of American intelligence activities during the era of the Revolutionary War, from 1765 to 1783, while describing the intelligence sources and methods used and how our Founding Fathers learned and practiced their intelligence role. The author, a retired CIA officer, provides insights into these events from an intelligence professional’s perspective, highlighting the tradecraft of intelligence collection, counterintelligence, and covert actions and relating how many of the principles of the era’s intelligence practice are still relevant today. Kenneth A. Daigler reveals the intelligence activities of famous personalities such as Samuel Adams, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Nathan Hale, John Jay, and Benedict Arnold, as well as many less well-known figures. He examines the important role of intelligence in key theaters of military operations, such as Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and in General Nathanael Greene’s campaign in South Carolina; the role of African Americans in the era’s intelligence activities; undertakings of networks such as the Culper Ring; and intelligence efforts and paramilitary actions conducted abroad. Spies, Patriots, and Traitors adds a new dimension to our understanding of the American Revolution. The book’s scrutiny of the tradecraft and management of Revolutionary War intelligence activities will be of interest to students, scholars, intelligence professionals, and anyone who wants to learn more about this fascinating era of American history.
Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army During the War of the Revolution, April 1775, to December, 1783
Author: Francis Bernard HeitmanPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 708
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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.
Roster of South Carolina Patriots in the American Revolution
Author: Bobby Gilmer MossPublisher:
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Category : South Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 1022
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Official Register of the Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolutionary War
Author: New Jersey. Adjutant-General's OfficePublisher:
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Category : New Jersey
Languages : en
Pages : 1282
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