Catechetical Lectures of St Cyril
Title | Catechetical Lectures of St Cyril PDF eBook |
Author | St Cyril of Jerusalem |
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Pages | |
Release | 2015-09-08 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781631741043 |
The Religious Instruction of the Negroes in the United States
Title | The Religious Instruction of the Negroes in the United States PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Colcock Jones |
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Pages | 306 |
Release | 1842 |
Genre | African Americans |
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Engineers of Independence
Title | Engineers of Independence PDF eBook |
Author | Paul K. Walker |
Publisher | The Minerva Group, Inc. |
Pages | 424 |
Release | 2002-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781410201737 |
This collection of documents, including many previously unpublished, details the role of the Army engineers in the American Revolution.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.
Genealogy of the Descendants of John Eliot, "apostle to the Indians," 1598-1905
Title | Genealogy of the Descendants of John Eliot, "apostle to the Indians," 1598-1905 PDF eBook |
Author | Wilimena Hannah Eliot Emerson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 414 |
Release | 1905 |
Genre | Genealogy |
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Druidism, the Ancient Faith of Britain
Title | Druidism, the Ancient Faith of Britain PDF eBook |
Author | Dudley Wright |
Publisher | |
Pages | 218 |
Release | 1924 |
Genre | Druids and Druidism |
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Select Essays in Anglo-American Legal History
Title | Select Essays in Anglo-American Legal History PDF eBook |
Author | Association of American Law Schools |
Publisher | |
Pages | 890 |
Release | 1907 |
Genre | Common law |
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The Negro
Title | The Negro PDF eBook |
Author | William Edward Burghardt Du Bois |
Publisher | |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 1915 |
Genre | Africa |
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