Author: Lyman Horace WeeksPublisher:
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Prominent Families of New York
Author: Lyman Horace WeeksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
History of the Colony of New Haven, Before and After the Union with Connecticut
Author: Edward Rodolphus LambertPublisher:
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Category : Branford (Conn. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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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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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This collection of documents, including many previously unpublished, details the role of the Army engineers in the American Revolution.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.
New York in the Revolution as Colony and State
Author: New York (State). Comptroller's OfficePublisher:
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Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages :
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Loyalism in New York During the American Revolution
Author: Alexander Clarence FlickPublisher:
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Category : American Confederate voluntary exiles
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Historical Materials in the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Presidential libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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The Waterman Family
Author: Sketches of North Carolina
Author: William Henry FootePublisher:
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Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 570
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American Prisoners of the Revolution
Author: Danske DandridgePublisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.