Author: Massachusetts. Office of the Secretary of StatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Digital images
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
Book Description
Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revoluntionary War
Author: Massachusetts. Office of the Secretary of StatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Digital images
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
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This collection of documents, including many previously unpublished, details the role of the Army engineers in the American Revolution.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.
Alexander Hamilton's Famous Report on Manufactures
Author: United States. Department of the TreasuryPublisher:
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Category : Manufactures
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
List of Officers of the Army of the United States from 1779 to 1900, Embracing a Register of All Appointments by the President of the United States in the Volunteer Service During the Civil War, and of Volunteer Officers in the Service of the United States
Author: William Henry PowellPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 910
Book Description
The Campaign of 1776 Around New York and Brooklyn
Author: Henry Phelps JohnstonPublisher:
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Category : Long Island, Battle of, 1776
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
American Military History Volume 1
Author: Army Center of Military HistoryPublisher:
ISBN: 9781944961404
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
American Military History provides the United States Army-in particular, its young officers, NCOs, and cadets-with a comprehensive but brief account of its past. The Center of Military History first published this work in 1956 as a textbook for senior ROTC courses. Since then it has gone through a number of updates and revisions, but the primary intent has remained the same. Support for military history education has always been a principal mission of the Center, and this new edition of an invaluable history furthers that purpose. The history of an active organization tends to expand rapidly as the organization grows larger and more complex. The period since the Vietnam War, at which point the most recent edition ended, has been a significant one for the Army, a busy period of expanding roles and missions and of fundamental organizational changes. In particular, the explosion of missions and deployments since 11 September 2001 has necessitated the creation of additional, open-ended chapters in the story of the U.S. Army in action. This first volume covers the Army's history from its birth in 1775 to the eve of World War I. By 1917, the United States was already a world power. The Army had sent large expeditionary forces beyond the American hemisphere, and at the beginning of the new century Secretary of War Elihu Root had proposed changes and reforms that within a generation would shape the Army of the future. But world war-global war-was still to come. The second volume of this new edition will take up that story and extend it into the twenty-first century and the early years of the war on terrorism and includes an analysis of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq up to January 2009.
Prominent Families of New York
Author: Lyman Horace WeeksPublisher:
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
History of Bristol County, Massachusetts
Author: Duane Hamilton HurdPublisher:
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Category : Bristol County (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
New Amsterdam Gazette
Author: Morris CosterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local history
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
The Declaration of Independence
Author: Carl Lotus BeckerPublisher:
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Category : Natural law
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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