John Adams To Henry Knox About His Commission 11 November 1775
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Author | : John Adams |
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Release | : 1775 |
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In response to Knox seeking a commission as colonel, Adams writes that he is rejoiced to learn that you have at last determined to take a more important share than you have done hitherto in the conduct of our military matters. Explains that he has been impressed with Knox's military knowledge and has been making his name known among the members of the Continental Congress in Philadelphia. Reports that he is lobbying for Knox to receive the commission he seeks, and believes he will. Wants Knox to keep him informed about everything that is happening in the camp. Adams wants to know the Name, Rank and Character of every officer in the Army--I mean every honest and able one. Wants to know about skillful engineers in the army. Asks what books on the military arts are in Harvard's library, and which are the best.
Author | : Henry Knox |
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Release | : 1776 |
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Apologizes for responding so late to Adams' letter of 11 November 1775 (see GLC002437.00208). Discusses military books and the difficulty of obtaining them in America, and recommends books useful to different departments in the army. Comments on the importance of the war and the cause of American freedom with vehement support: Such Opportunities as the present do no[t] turn up often in the course of human events--the happiness or misery of a great proportion of the human race is at stake. This was Knox's retained working draft; the sent copy (now in the Adams Papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society) is dated May 16th.
Author | : John Adams |
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Release | : 1800 |
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President Adams received Knox's letter of February 27. Adams expresses his concern that after recommending Knox's son, Henry, for a commission in the US Navy, the Senate did not approve. He tells Knox that there is little else he can do. Adams says, the Navy however is a scene of momentous responsibility to me and if a ship should be lost by any Man for whom I shall have made myself thus exclusively answerable, you know what candid constructions will be put upon me.
Author | : Henry Knox |
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Release | : 1799 |
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Knox writes to President Adams, urging him to allow Knox's son Henry to be promoted from midshipmen to Lieutenant in the US Navy. (Knox Jr. was midshipman on the USS Constitutional). The docket reads, The President on the receipt of this letter dd Henry a Commission of Lieutenant in the Navy, filled up with his own hand.
Author | : United States. Naval History Division |
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Total Pages | : 1520 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Government publications |
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In the tradition of the preceding volumes - the first of which was published in 1964 - this work synthesizes edited documents, including correspondence, ship logs, muster rolls, orders, and newspaper accounts, that provide a comprehensive understanding of the war at sea in the spring of 1778. The editors organize this wide array of texts chronologically by theater and incorporate French, Italian, and Spanish transcriptions with English translations throughout.
Author | : Robert K. Wright, Jr. |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2004-07-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781410214799 |
This book was written to explore the contribution of Revolutionary War veterans to the founding of the American republic. By veterans, we mean all those who served in the Continental and state forces, on land or sea. Twenty three of those veterans were among the men who signed the Constitution in Philadelphia on 17 September 1787. That document, as the eminent American historian Samuel Eliot Morison put it, is "a work of genius, since it set up what every earlier political scientist had thought impossible, a sovereign union of sovereign states. This reconciling of unity with diversity, this practical application of the federal principle, is undoubtedly the most original contribution of the United States to the history and technique of human liberty."
Author | : William Elliott Hazelgrove |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2020-05-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1633886158 |
The inspiring story of a little-known hero's pivotal role in the American Revolutionary WarDuring the brutal winter of 1775-1776, an untested Boston bookseller named Henry Knox commandeered an oxen train hauling sixty tons of cannons and other artillery from Fort Ticonderoga near the Canadian border. He and his men journeyed some three hundred miles south and east over frozen, often-treacherous terrain to supply George Washington for his attack of British troops occupying Boston. The result was the British surrender of Boston and the first major victory for the Colonial Army. This is one of the great stories of the American Revolution, still little known by comparison with the more famous battles of Concord, Lexington, and Bunker Hill. Told with a novelist's feel for narrative, character, and vivid description, The Noble Train brings to life the events and people at a time when the ragtag American rebels were in a desperate situation. Washington's army was withering away from desertion and expiring enlistments. Typhoid fever, typhus, and dysentery were taking a terrible toll. There was little hope of dislodging British General Howe and his 20,000 British troops in Boston—until Henry Knox arrived with his supply convoy of heavy armaments. Firing down on the city from the surrounding Dorchester Heights, these weapons created a decisive turning point. An act of near desperation fueled by courage, daring, and sheer tenacity led to a tremendous victory for the cause of independence.This exciting tale of daunting odds and undaunted determination highlights a pivotal episode that changed history.
Author | : Charles Richard Smith |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 2018-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0359127193 |
Marines In The Revolution by Charles Richard Smith; Charles H Waterhouse "Traces the activities of one special group of Marines; the successes and failures of the group as a whole, and the fundamental aspects of modern Marine amphibious doctrine which grew out of Continental Marine experience during the eight-year fight for American independence."
Author | : John 1735-1826 Adams |
Publisher | : Wentworth Press |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2016-08-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781363692538 |
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Author | : Noah Brooks |
Publisher | : Cosimo, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2007-06-01 |
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ISBN | : 160206444X |
First Secretary Of War Under The Constitution, Founder Of The Society Of The Cincinnati 1750-1806.