Guide To West Point And The Us Military Academy PDF Download

Excerpt from Guide to West Point, and the U. S. Military Academy: With Maps and Engravings Ninety years ago, when West Point pos sessed no attraction beyond that presented by similar adjoining wild and uncultivated woodland tracts in the Highlands, a band of Commissioners, appointed by the Pro vincial Congress of the Colony of New York, instituted an undertaking which first imparted a public interest to this favored Spot. The war for American Independence was in progress, and then, as now, the Hud son river afforded the principal channel of communication between the theatre of the strife and the country lying northward to Canada and the west. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.