Author: Lyman Horace WeeksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Prominent Families of New York
Author: Lyman Horace WeeksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
The Reestablishment of the Navy, 1787-1801
Author: Michael J. CrawfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
An Outline of Law and Procedure in Representation Cases
Author: United States. National Labor Relations Board. Office of the General CounselPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Wadhams Genealogy
Author: Mrs. Harriet Weeks (Wadhams) StevensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Revolutionary War Records
Author: Gaius Marcus BrumbaughPublisher:
ISBN: 9780806300603
Category : Bounties, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Given in memory of Charles Hudson Edge, Laura James Edge, by Eugene Edge III.
The Writings of James Madison: 1787-1790
Author: James MadisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 486
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This collection of documents, including many previously unpublished, details the role of the Army engineers in the American Revolution.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.
The Memorial History of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884
Author: James Hammond TrumbullPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hartford County (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
Sketches of the Alumni of Dartmouth College
Author: George Thomas ChapmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
The Education of John Adams
Author: Richard B. BernsteinPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199740232
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
This book, a free-standing companion to Bernstein's 2003 biography Thomas Jefferson, responds to the public curiosity about Adams, his life, and his work for those intrigued by popular-culture portrayals of Adams in the Broadway musical 1776 and the HBO television miniseries John Adams. As with Bernstein's other work (e.g., The Founding Fathers: A Very Short Introduction), it is a clear, scholarly, concise, well-written, and well-researched account of Adams's life, career, and thought addressing anyone seeking to learn more about him.