OF

WEST POINT,

AND ITS

MILITARY IMPORTANCE DURING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION:

AND THE

ORIGIN AND PROGRESS

OF THE

UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY.

BY

CAPTAIN EDWARD C. BOYNTON, A. M.,

ADJUTANT OF THE MILITARY ACADEMY.

NEW YORK:

D. VAN NOSTRAND. 192 BROADWAY.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863,

BY EDWARD C. BOYNTON,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.

100 Copies printed for E. FRENCH.

TILDEN LIBRAR

1895

C. A. ALVORD, ELECTROTYPER AND PRINTER.

LOVEJOY & SON, ELECTRO,

"I give it to my x 1 pinin, that but for our graduand Cadets, the war between the United States and Mexico might, and pr bably w ul have lactel ud have hotela me four or Ave years, with in it fins half, more bruto them victories falling to cur dur; whereas, in bes than two Jumpaigns we compared a grot & antry and a pre, without the loss of a single battle or oxirik "--Misc. Loc. SENATE, 2D SECTION, XXXVI. GONG, 176, 18021

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