Army Engineers in New England: The Military and Civil Work of the Corps of Engineers in New England, 1775-1975 |
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Page 90 - Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be immediately available, and to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers, for the construction, completion, repair, and preservation of the public works hereinafter named: ***** Sec.
Page 35 - May, 1824, an a"ct was passed making appropriations for "deepening the channel leading into the harbor of Presque Isle, in the State of Pennsylvania," and to "repair Plymouth Beach, in the State of Massachusetts, and thereby prevent the harbor at that place from being destroyed.
Page 11 - In short, the Military Academy, as it now stands, is like a foundling, barely existing among the mountains, and nurtured at a distance out of sight, and almost unknown to its legitimate parents.
Page 5 - ... miles ; the breastworks of a proper height, and in many places seventeen feet in thickness ; the trenches wide and deep in proportion, before which lay forked impediments ; and many of the forts, in every respect, are perfectly ready for battle. The whole, in a word, the admiration of every spectator ; for verily their fortifications appear to be the works of seven years, instead of about as many months. At these camps are about twenty thousand men. The generals and other officers, in all their...
Page 4 - ... contest begins, which will probably bring on a general engagement. In four or five days more, the Americans will be well prepared, and won't care how soon the regulars come; the sooner the better. At Roxbury side the regulars have dug across the neck, and let the water through, and the Americans in turn, have intrenched across the outer end of the neck, and are strongly fortified there, and on the hill by the meeting-house...
Page 6 - the rebels have done more in one night than my whole army would have done in a month :" and to Lord Dartmouth he wrote ; " It must have been the employment of at least twelve thousand men.
Page 48 - Harbor improvements of a national character, required for the accommodation and security of our existing commerce, are authorized by the Constitution and justified by an obligation of the Government to protect the lives and property of its citizens.
Page 7 - Putnam acts here as a Chief Engineer, by which means the Regiment is totally deprived of his services, and to remove him from that department, the Public would sustain a capital injury, for altho' he is not a man of scientific knowledge, he is indefatigable in business and possesses more practicable knowledge in the Art of Engineering than any other we have in this Camp or Army.
Page 47 - It ranks, by the engineering difficulties surrounding its erection, and by the skill and science shown in the details of its construction, among the chief of the great, sea rock lighthouses of the world.