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Bezig met laden... The Nation builders : a sesquicentennial history of the Corps of Topographical Engineers, 1838-1863door Frank N. Schubert
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. The Corps of Topographical Engineers was established in 1838 to foster peacetime economic growth, national cohesion, and national transportation. This small group of mapmakers and explorers helped establish the routes of the railroads and waterborne transportation. This is a nice review of their work. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
This book marks an important anniversary in the history of our development as a nation. In 1838 Congress established the Corps of Topographical Engineers, an organization whose main purpose was the peacetime fostering of economic growth and national cohesion. This small dedicated group of officers contributed to the development of many aspects of the national transportation network-railroads, highways, and inland waterways. They provided maps for overland travelers and charts for navigators on our Great Lakes. By the time that the organization was abolished during the Civil War, it had played a major part in a period of dramatic development aptly characterized by one historian as a "transportation revolution." ROBERT W. PAGE Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works) Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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