Author: United States. Continental CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789: Jan. 1-April 23, 1781. 1912
Author: United States. Continental CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Papers of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789
Author: United States. National Archives and Records ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Notes on the State of Virginia
Author: Thomas JeffersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
A Summary View of the Rights of British America
Author: Thomas JeffersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Washington's Farewell Address
Author: George WashingtonThe Papers of Benjamin Franklin
Author: Benjamin FranklinPublisher:
ISBN: 9780300061093
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Sponsored by the American Philosophical Society and Yale University, this edition of 'The Papers Of Benjamin Franklin' contains everything that Franklin wrote that can be found, and for the first time, in full or abstract, all letters addressed to him, the whole arranged in chronological order.
Soldier-statesmen of the Constitution
Author: Robert K. WrightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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This collection of documents, including many previously unpublished, details the role of the Army engineers in the American Revolution.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.
Our Documents
Author: The National ArchivesPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198042272
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Our Documents is a collection of 100 documents that the staff of the National Archives has judged most important to the development of the United States. The entry for each document includes a short introduction, a facsimile, and a transcript of the document. Backmatter includes further reading, credits, and index. The book is part of the much larger Our Documents initiative sponsored by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), National History Day, the Corporation for National and Community Service, and the USA Freedom Corps.
Information to Those who Would Remove to America
Author: Benjamin FranklinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description