Download or read book Brigadier General Louis Leb gue Duportail Commandant of Engineers in the Continental Army 1777 1783 By Elizabeth S Kite With a Portrait and a Facsimile written by Institut français de Washington (D.C.) and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Brigadier General Louis Lebegue Duportail Commandant of Engineers in the Continental Army 1777 1783 written by Elizabeth S. Kite and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-05 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1933, this book contains a collection of documents that tell the story of Louis Lebègue de Presle Duportail (1743-1802), a French military leader who served as a volunteer and the chief engineer in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He also served as the French Minister of Defense during the beginning of the French Revolution. “Truly a soldier he was and then an engineer, such as we who now follow him most desire to be, and must be if we are to do our full duty to our country.”—Lytle Brown
Download or read book Brigadier General Louis Lebeque Duportail written by Elizabeth Sarah Kite and published by . This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Brigadier General Louis Duportail Commandant of Engineers in the Continental Army 1777 1783 written by Elizabeth Sarah Kite and published by . This book was released on 1933-01-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Brigadier General Louis Leb gue Duportail written by Elizabeth S.. Kite and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Engineers of Independence written by Paul K. Walker and published by The Minerva Group, Inc.. This book was released on 2002-08 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of documents, including many previously unpublished, details the role of the Army engineers in the American Revolution.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.
Download or read book Washington s Engineer written by Norman Desmarais and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The French were the archenemies of the British and her American colonies, particularly after the French and Indian War which was begun by George Washington. So, why did America look to the French as their principal ally in the American Revolution and why did General George Washington choose a Frenchman as his chief engineer? This biography of Louis Duportail, founder and first Commandant of the Army Corps of Engineers, begins by exploring those questions. It then explores the life of this man, who is virtually unknown in America and less known in his native France. This is an unique biography about an overlooked, even obscure, French officer that was instrumental in the American cause for independence. As a complete biography, it covers his return to France and his service in the French army. Cementing his role in the seminal events of the era, readers will also learn of his problems under the Reign of Terror and his escape to the United States where he purchased a quite farm near Valley Forge. It concludes with his unusual death at sea and the problems of settling his estate. Duportail died in the greatest anonymity, in the greatest indifference, without earthly burial, without military honors, a dedicated monument to his glory in service to France or the United States, and without intervention of his brothers in arms to honor and recall his memory.
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Download or read book Engineers of Independence written by Paul K. Walker and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biographical Sketches of the Generals of the Continental Army of the Revolution written by Mary Theresa Leiter and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
