Author: Library of Congress. Manuscript DivisionPublisher:
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Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 984
Book Description
Calendar of the Correspondence of George Washington
Author: Library of Congress. Manuscript DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 984
Book Description
Calendar of the Correspondence of George Washington
Author: United States. President (1789-1797 : Washington)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
Calendar of the Correspondence of George Washington, Commander in Chief of the Continental Army, with the Officers ...
Author: Library of Congress. Manuscript DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
"This calendar is No. 2 of the Calendars of the Washington Manuscripts. It covers Washington's correspondence with the military and naval officers of every rank of Continental and State troops, the French auxiliaries, foreign ministers and agents, and officers in the British service. It should be used in connection with Calendar No. 1 (The Correspondence of George Washington with the Continental Congress. Washington: 1906), entries from which are occasionally duplicated for convenience of reference"--Prefatory note
Index, The Papers of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789: East Whiteland-Leacraft, G
Author: Index, The Papers of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789
Author: The Life of George Washington
Author: John MarshallGeorge Washington
Author: George WashingtonPublisher: Liberty Fund
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
Based almost entirely on materials reproduced from: The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799 / John C. Fitzpatrick, editor. Includes indexes.
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This collection of documents, including many previously unpublished, details the role of the Army engineers in the American Revolution.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.
Index, the Papers of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789: Leacraft, W.-Pyttis
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1494
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