Author: Massachusetts Historical Society. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 898
Book Description
Catalog of Manuscripts of the Massachusetts Historical Society
Author: Massachusetts Historical Society. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 898
Book Description
Index, The Papers of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789
Author: Index, The Papers of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789: Aachen - East Twinsey
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1476
Book Description
Prominent Families of New York
Author: Lyman Horace WeeksPublisher:
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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This collection of documents, including many previously unpublished, details the role of the Army engineers in the American Revolution.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.
Field Artillery
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Category : Artillery, Field and mountain
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
The Continental Army
Author: Robert K. WrightPublisher: Washington, D.C. : Center of Military History, United States Army
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
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.
Correspondence and Journals of Samuel Blachley Webb
Author: Samuel Blachley WebbPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
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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Author: Arthur Lee