Description |
xiv, 403 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
Series |
EP ; 870-1-6 |
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EP (Washington, D.C.) ; 870-1-6.
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Note |
"October 1981"--Page 4 of cover. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-388) and index. |
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S/N 008-022-00166-2. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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.
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United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Campaigns.
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United States. Continental Army. (OCoLC)fst00531979
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Military campaigns. (OCoLC)fst01710190
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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American Revolution (United States : 1775-1783) (OCoLC)fst01351668
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Chronological Term |
1775-1783
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Genre/Form |
Government publications.
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Added Author |
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Historical Division.
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Paul Cartwright Collection (Mississippi State University. Libraries) MsSM
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Added Title |
Documentary history of the Army Engineers in the American Revolution, 1775-1783.
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Other Form: |
Walker, Paul K. Engineers of independence (OCoLC)272405468 |
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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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