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Author Walker, Paul K.

Title Engineers of independence : a documentary history of the Army Engineers in the American Revolution, 1775-1783 / by Paul K. Walker.

Publication Info. [Washington, D.C.] : Historical Division, Office of Administrative Services, Office of the Chief of Engineers : For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, [1981]

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Location Call No. Status
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Reference Material  REF 358.22 WALKER    In-Library Use Only
Description xiv, 403 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Series EP ; 870-1-6
EP (Washington, D.C.) ; 870-1-6.
Note "October 1981"--Page 4 of cover.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-388) and index.
Note S/N 008-022-00166-2.
Item 338-B.
Contents It was indeed, impossible for them to exist / Charles Lee -- He is a plain, modest, active, sensible man, perfectly averse to frippery and parade / Silas Deane -- Agreement between Silas Deane and Tronson du Coudray for service in the Continental Army -- There is a singular hardship in the case of these gentlemen / James Lovell -- I have here requested nothing but what is absolutely necessary for our service / Louis Duportail -- The chief engineer should have a respectable rank in the army / Louis Duportail -- "We believed that the Congree would be sensible" / Louis Duportail -- Robert Erskine outlines "What may really be accomplished by a geographer" -- We are far from wishing to raise fortunes by the calamities of our country / Simeon DeWitt and Benjamin Lodge -- With out a core of engeneers [sic] ... the works never will be properly executed nor don [sic] in a reasonable time / Rufus Putnam -- Rufus Putnam details the first plan for a corps of engineers -- Louis Duportail proposes "An establishment which is absolutely indispensable" -- Resolution of Congress : "Their business shall be to instruct the fatigue parties" -- Resolution of Congress : "The engineers shall be formed into a corps" -- Regulations for the Corps of Engineers -- It would be very advantageous to Pensilvania [sic] to furnish a number of these soldiers / Louis Duportail -- This corps of miners was reckoned an honorable one / Joseph Plumb Martin -- Altho' we were but few we were preserved in a most wonderful manner / Peter Brown -- The success is too dearly bought / William Howe -- We are as well secured, as could be expected / George Washington -- We expected ... the King's troops would have advanced on us, but they durst not / John Chester -- The Patriots entrench on Lechmere Point / Jeduthan Baldwin -- Rufus Putnam recalls the decision to fortify Dorchester Heights / The enemy cannot take possession of Dorchester Hill at present / Rufus Putnam -- The amount of labor performed during the night ... is almost incredible / James Thacher -- Every one knew his place and business / Rev. William Gordon -- Their posts were "more like majick [sic] than the work of human beings" / Charles Stuart -- I have exerted every nerve to the utmost / Richard Gridley -- Richard Gridley's account of materials supplied to the Boston forts.
The ascent was difficult and laborious, but not impracticable / John Trumbull -- I have my hands and mind constantly employed night and day except when i am asleep and then sometimes I dream / Jeduthan Baldwin -- The general is confidant [sic] a spirit of emulation will animate each brigade to finish the task assign'd them / Anthony Wayne -- Christopher Pelissier's observations on the Jersey Redoubt -- Agreement between Jeduthan Baldwin and a company of artificers -- Jeduthan Baldwin reviews Ticonderoga's needs for 1777 -- Jeduthan Baldwin chronicles the progress at Ticonderoga -- The rebels had kept on working continuously with unfailing courage / Du Roi the Elder -- Court-martial of Maj. Gen. Arthur St. Clair -- New-York may be made a most advantageous field of battle / Charles Lee -- The rebels fortify New York and Long Island / Jeduthan Baldwin -- Robert Erskine describes his Marine Chevaux-de-Frise -- The Chevalier de Kermorvan: "I only wish for speed in operations" -- The crucial point is to bring the camps on the coastline closer together / The Chevalier de Kermorvan -- Rufus Putnam reconnoiters the Island of Manhattan -- I have never spared the spade and pick ax / George Washington -- David Bushnell's general principles and construction of a submarine vessel -- I thought the best generalship was to retreat as fast as I could / Ezra Lee -- I disguised my apperence [sic] as an officer as far as I could / Rufus Putnam -- Tronson du Coudray's observations on the Delaware River Defenses -- Tronson du Coudray calls for acceleration of the Delaware River fortifications -- The object the least pressing is the defense of the Delaware / Tronson du Coudray -- We must have men, works, and be enabled to make vigorous sallies / François Fleury -- The greatest part of the bombs ... occasion more fear than damage / François Fleury -- Of what avail are fortifications undefended by men / François Fleury -- We were, like the beaver, obliged to repair our dams in the night / Joseph Plumb Martin -- Our ruins will serve us as breast works, we will defend the ground inch by inch / François Fleury -- If ever destruction was complete, it was here / Joseph Plumb Martin -- There is a hundred times more enthusiasm for this revolution in a single cafe in Paris than in all the united colonies / Louis Duportail -- To justify such an enterprise the success must be almost certain / Louis Duportail -- Wilmington answers the end of making the subsistance very difficult to General Howe / Louis Duportail -- The Battle of German Town ought to be a lesson to us / Louis Duportail -- Battle of the Kegs / Francis Hopkinson -- François Fleury describes his plan for fire boats -- It is a principle of war cautiously to avoid doing what your enemy would have you do / Louis Duportail -- Here is a certain and immense advantage / Louis Duportail -- The Marquis de Chastellux reviews the Delaware River defenses.
Mr. Romans has displayed his genius at a very great expense, and to very little public advantage / Lord Stirling -- I still think Fort Clinton is the better / Louis de Shaix La Radière -- Louis Duportail finds the works "perfectly fulfill the object which is proposed" -- I do not think myself responsible in any manner for the neglects of that fort / Louis Duportail -- I had several fair observations as the sun passed through the openings of the clouds / Rufus Putnam -- It would not be prudent to risk the loss of a great number of men, upon hopes not well founded / Louis Duportail -- Happily, the time for fear is passed / Louis Duportail -- The most magnificent picture I have ever beheld / The Marquis de Chastellux -- The Chevalier de Villefranche's report on the work required at West Point -- Villefranche's "Superb structure affected the spectators with admiration and pleasure" / James Thacher -- I verily believe, I saved the old man's life / Joseph Plumb Martin -- "The blot which now stains a page in the records of the Army" / George Washington -- We had lived together as a family of brothers / Joseph Plumb Martin -- I never was uneasy on not having a retreat / William Moultrie -- Never did men fight more bravely, and never were men more cool / William Moultrie -- This strange siege was the work of Penelope / Count d'Estaing -- Ferdinand de Brahm describes the siege of Charleston, 1780 -- In all this the honor of the American arms is secure / Louis Duportail -- I am here in a flat country where green stagnant pools exhale corruption / Louis Duportail -- A Maham Tower is used against Fort Watson / Henry Lee -- Henry Lee recounts the siege of Augusta -- Kosciuszko "Pressed froward his approach with indefatigable labour" / Henry Lee -- Blind fortune not always keep pace with curage [sic] and good cause / Thaddeus Kosciuszko -- Louis Duportail advocates a Charleston offensive -- Louis Duportail's estimate of requirements for a New York siege -- Louis Duportail's plan for a New York offensive / We must take Cornwallis or be all dishonored / Louis Duportail -- Here again we encountered our old associate, hunger / Joseph Plumb Martin -- The entire place was scattered with earth works, was bristling with pointed stakes / Capitaine du Chesnoy -- Regulations for the service of the siege at Yorktown / George Washington -- The enemy kept up an almost incessant fire / James Duncan -- The British were led to imagine that we were about some secret mischief / Joseph Plumb Martin -- I have a fine opportunity of witnessing the sublime and stupendous scene / James Thacher -- I thought the British were killing us off at a great rate / Joseph Plumb Martin -- The assailants bravely entered the fort without firing a single gun / James Thacher -- George Washington testifies to the engineers' distinguished service.
An officer of artillery and an engineer want a great application to be perfectly instructed / Jean Baptiste de Gouvion -- Among the sea ports, New York claims the first attention / Rufus Putnam -- As many as two engineers will probably be always found necessary / Timothy Pickering -- A corps of able engineers cannot be raised in a day / George Washington -- Report of a committee of Congress on a Military peace establishment / The Chevalier de Villefranche's observations along the route to Canada -- Louis Duportail urges uniting the artillery and the engineers -- A neutral power must be ready for war / Pierre L'Enfant.
Subject United States. Continental Army -- History.
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Campaigns.
United States. Continental Army. (OCoLC)fst00531979
Military campaigns. (OCoLC)fst01710190
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
American Revolution (United States : 1775-1783) (OCoLC)fst01351668
Chronological Term 1775-1783
Genre/Form Government publications.
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Historical Division.
Paul Cartwright Collection (Mississippi State University. Libraries) MsSM
Added Title Documentary history of the Army Engineers in the American Revolution, 1775-1783.
Other Form: Walker, Paul K. Engineers of independence (OCoLC)272405468
Online version: Walker, Paul K. Engineers of independence. [Washington, D.C.] : Historical Division, Office of Administrative Services, Office of the Chief of Engineers : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S.G.P.O., [1981] (OCoLC)613709952
Gpo Item No. 338-B
Sudoc No. D 103.43:870-1-6
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