Author: Barbara J. Knight Cruchon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Hulls in the American Revolution, 1775-1783
Author: Barbara J. Knight Cruchon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
History of Maritime Connecticut During the American Revolution, 1775-1783
Author: Louis Frank Middlebrook
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
YALE AND HER HONOR-ROLL IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775-1783
Author: HENRY P. JOHNSTON
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
The American Revolution, 1775-1783
Author: John Richard Alden
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Discusses major battles, campaigns, and leaders as well as political, economi and cultural conditions in the colonies.
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Discusses major battles, campaigns, and leaders as well as political, economi and cultural conditions in the colonies.
The Revolution in Virginia, 1775-1783
Author: John E. Selby
Publisher: Colonial Williamsburg
ISBN: 9780879352332
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Unsurpassed as a single-volume history, John E. Selby's masterpiece analyzes the political, administrative, and military history of Virginia during the American Revolution. Stressing the contributions, in both men and material, that the state made to the new nation's war effort, Shelby shows how Virginia's leaders responded to the need to expand the state's administration and mobilize its people for war while at the same time looking westward to the vast territory beyond the Appalachians. Now available for the first time in paperback and with a new foreword by the historian Don Higginbotham, this classic is a must-read for anyone interested in the origins of our nation.
Publisher: Colonial Williamsburg
ISBN: 9780879352332
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Unsurpassed as a single-volume history, John E. Selby's masterpiece analyzes the political, administrative, and military history of Virginia during the American Revolution. Stressing the contributions, in both men and material, that the state made to the new nation's war effort, Shelby shows how Virginia's leaders responded to the need to expand the state's administration and mobilize its people for war while at the same time looking westward to the vast territory beyond the Appalachians. Now available for the first time in paperback and with a new foreword by the historian Don Higginbotham, this classic is a must-read for anyone interested in the origins of our nation.
Engineers of Independence
Author: Paul K. Walker
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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 American Revolution 1775-1783
Navies and the American Revolution 1775-1783
Author: Robert Gardiner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The crucial contribution of seapower to the struggle for American independence forms the theme for this volume, drawing on published prints, maps and illustrated journals of the time to achieve a remarkable impression of the maritime aspects of the war, in all its variety and drama. But besides the campaigns, battles and sieges, the book also illustrates many significant background aspects of the war, in the form of thematic inserts on such subjects as the ship types, the weapons and the organisation involved. The result is not just a visually exciting collection of contemporary images, many previously unpublished, but a valuable contribution to the understanding of how the American Revolution was seen at the time.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The crucial contribution of seapower to the struggle for American independence forms the theme for this volume, drawing on published prints, maps and illustrated journals of the time to achieve a remarkable impression of the maritime aspects of the war, in all its variety and drama. But besides the campaigns, battles and sieges, the book also illustrates many significant background aspects of the war, in the form of thematic inserts on such subjects as the ship types, the weapons and the organisation involved. The result is not just a visually exciting collection of contemporary images, many previously unpublished, but a valuable contribution to the understanding of how the American Revolution was seen at the time.
The War for America, 1775-1783
Author: Piers Mackesy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
American Revolution viewed by a British historian as a single facet in England's world-wide struggle against its two great Bourbon adversaries, France and Spain.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
American Revolution viewed by a British historian as a single facet in England's world-wide struggle against its two great Bourbon adversaries, France and Spain.
Westchester County During the American Revolution, 1775-1783
Author: Otto Hufeland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Westchester County (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Westchester County (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description