Brigadier-General Louis Lebègue Duportail: Commandant of Engineers in the Continental Army, 1777-1783 |
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Foreword by Major General Brown iii | 1 |
Duportail and Companions reach America and are | 11 |
Duportail at Valley Forge | 35 |
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