Louis de Tousard (1749–1817) was a French artillerist who served in the American Continental Army under La Fayette, and later was given a US commission...
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military engineer of the Order of Saint John. He is the brother of Louis de Tousard. Tousard was educated at the Royal Engineering School of Mézières. In 1770...
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Éleuthère Irénée du Pont (redirect from Eleuthère Irénée Du Pont de Nemours)
into the gunpowder business during a fateful hunting trip with Major Louis de Tousard, a former French artillery officer then employed by the United States...
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000 muskets built under the new system.[need quotation to verify] Louis de Tousard, who fled the French Revolution, joined the U.S. Corp of Artillerists...
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interchangeability of parts. He inspired others, including Honoré Blanc and Louis de Tousard, to work further on the idea, and on shoulder weapons as well as artillery...
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Adams State Park today. The first Fort Adams was designed by Major Louis de Tousard of the United States Army Corps of Engineers as part of the first system...
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Artillery, Crowood Press, ISBN 978-1-86126-923-2 Graves, Donald (2011) "Louis de Tousard and his 'Artillerists Companion': An Investigation of Source Material...
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began on the fort in 1795, under the auspices of engineer officer Louis de Tousard, who from 1795 to 1800 traveled along the coast between Massachusetts...
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Second, artillery officer Louis de Tousard (who had served with Lafayette) was an enthusiast of Gribeauval's ideas. Tousard wrote two influential documents...
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forty-seven Oneida and Seneca men along with Polly Cooper left with Louis de Tousard carrying bushels of corn 250 miles (400 km) and supplies to assist...
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Center of Military History. CMH Pub 60-4. Graves, Donald (2011). "Louis de Tousard and his "Artillerists Companion": An Investigation of Source Material...
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developments in 1785. The idea of armament standardization was advocated by Louis de Tousard, who fled the French Revolution and in 1795 joined the U.S. Corps of...
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and an early U.S. military fortification designed in part by Major Louis de Tousard. The fort was named after Alexander Hamilton, and was part of the first...
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work began on the fort in 1795 under the auspices of engineer officer Louis de Tousard, who from 1795 to 1800 worked on coastal defenses between Massachusetts...
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two 3-inch M1903 guns (76 mm) on pedestal mounts. Battery Tousard was named for Louis de Tousard, an engineer and artillery officer with much involvement...
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Naval History and Heritage Command. p. 29. ISBN 978-1-943604-23-4. Tousard, Louis de (1809). American Artillerist's Companion: Or Elements of Artillery...
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military officers led first by General Gribeauval and later by Major Louis de Tousard (who took his ideas with him into the newly established American military)...
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carriages were unable to withstand the recoil energy of very large guns. de Tousard, Louis (1809). American Artillerist's Companion. C. and A. Conrad & Company...
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Gurie. Eduard Franz as Éleuthère Irénée du Pont Marcel Journet as Col. Louis de Tousard Sigrid Gurie as Sophie du Pont Grandon Rhodes as President Thomas Jefferson...
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Lloyd's List №4514. Lloyd's List 18 January 1811, №4529. de Tousard, Louis de Tousard, Louis (1809). American artillerist's companion; or, Elements of...
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Bertin Gaston Chapuis de Tourville (général de division) Antoine Étienne de Tousard (général de brigade) Toussaint Louverture (général de division) Jean François...
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1791 shortly before the Revolution. In the same year, Antoine Étienne de Tousard took up a position on Malta as an engineer to the Order of Saint John...
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Knox, English essayist, minister (d. 1821) December 9 – Antoine Étienne de Tousard, French general, military engineer (d. 1813) December 12 Thomas Bulkeley...
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under the supervision of Major Louis Tousard of the Army Corps of Engineers. This fort was officially called Fort Louis and, later, Fort Brown (after Major...
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Gian Francesco Albani, Italian cardinal (b. 1719) 1813 – Antoine Étienne de Tousard, French general and engineer (b. 1752) 1830 – François Baillairgé, Canadian...
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Hezqeyas, deposed Emperor of Ethiopia September 15 – Antoine Étienne de Tousard, French general, military engineer (b. 1752) September 22 – Rose Bertin...
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composer (d. 1818) 1748 – Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist and academic (d. 1822) 1752 – Antoine Étienne de Tousard, French general and engineer (d...
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Century.(Routledge). ISBN 0-7146-1894-2 Leonard (1833), pp. 171–2. de Tousard, Louis (1809). American artillerist's companion; or, Elements of artillery...
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from the original on 22 November 2015. Retrieved 22 October 2015. de Tousard, Louis. American Artillerist's Companion: Or Elements of Artillery. Treating...
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serve as a base for land and sea attacks on Boston or New York. Major Louis Tousard, a French military engineer with the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers...
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