Report of the Special Committee of House of Assembly Accompanying Bill Entitled "A Supplement to the Act Entitled 'An Act Relative to the Delaware and Raritan Canal and Camden and Amboy Railroad and Transportation Companies, '" Being a Substitute for a Bill from the Senate ...
Title | Report of the Special Committee of House of Assembly Accompanying Bill Entitled "A Supplement to the Act Entitled 'An Act Relative to the Delaware and Raritan Canal and Camden and Amboy Railroad and Transportation Companies, '" Being a Substitute for a Bill from the Senate ... PDF eBook |
Author | New Jersey. Legislature. General Assembly. Special Committee on the Delaware and Raritan Canal and Camden and Amboy Railroad and Transportation Companies |
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Pages | 10 |
Release | 1854 |
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Catalog of Government Publications in the Research Libraries
Title | Catalog of Government Publications in the Research Libraries PDF eBook |
Author | New York Public Library. Economic and Public Affairs Division |
Publisher | |
Pages | 660 |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | Government publications |
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Report of the Committee, to Whom was Referred the Bill, Entitled "An Act to Make Further Provision for the Removal and Accommodation of the Government of the United States."
Title | Report of the Committee, to Whom was Referred the Bill, Entitled "An Act to Make Further Provision for the Removal and Accommodation of the Government of the United States." PDF eBook |
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Pages | 4 |
Release | 1800 |
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Style Manual of the Government Printing Office
Title | Style Manual of the Government Printing Office PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Government Printing Office |
Publisher | |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 1923 |
Genre | Authorship |
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Roads and Industry
Title | Roads and Industry PDF eBook |
Author | British Road Federation |
Publisher | |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | Roads |
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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This collection of documents, including many previously unpublished, details the role of the Army engineers in the American Revolution.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.
The Railroad Question
Title | The Railroad Question PDF eBook |
Author | William Larrabee |
Publisher | |
Pages | 500 |
Release | 1893 |
Genre | Railroads |
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