Louis Lebègue Duportail
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Louis Antoine Jean Le Bègue de Presle Duportail was a French military leader who served as a volunteer and the Chief Engineer of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He also ser
Portrait by Charles Willson Peale (Independence National Historical Park)
The United States Army Corps of Engineers is the military engineering branch of the United States Army. A Direct Reporting Unit, it has three primary mission areas: Engineer Regiment, military constru
Louis Lebègue Duportail
…Louis XVI of France. He was appointed colonel and chief engineer of the Continental Army, July 1777; brigadier general, November 17, 1777; commander, Corps of Engineers, May 1779; and major general, November 16, 1781. Duportail helped Washington evolve the primarily defensive military strategy that wore down the British…
The headquarters of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Norfolk District in Norfolk, Virginia
Olmsted Locks and Dam on the Ohio River in Olmsted, Illinois, was under construction for over 20 years under the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' watch; it opened in 2018.
Celebratory proceedings in 2006 for the opening of a new women's center in Iraq, constructed by the Corps of Engineers
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-chartered dredge Tauracavor in New York Harbor