HISTORY OF WEST POINT, AND ITS MILITARY IMPORTANCE DURING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AND THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY

by Edward C. Boynton

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First edition

New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1863. First edition. 8vo. xviii, 408 pp. Illustrated, plates, maps, folding lithograph 9 x 30 inches, by J. Bien frontispiece, a view of West Point on the Hudson River, folding plans. Ownership signature of Nathaniel Norris Halstead at the head of the title page; Halstead 1816-1884 , a founder of Kearney, New Jersey, donated the money for an observatory at Princeton, but is perhaps now better known for his work on the Intelligent

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