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Title: Report of the Commission to examine into the organization, system of discipline, and course of instruction of the United States Military Academy at West Point
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Military Academy Commission (U.S.) Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889
Subjects: United States Military Academy United States Military Academy
Publisher: Washington : Government Printing Office
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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One Instrucor of Practical Military Engineering; One Assistant Listructor of Practical Engineering ; One instructor in the use of Small Arms; One Sword Master, Assistant to the Instructor in the use of SmallArms; One Adjutant ; One Surgeon; Two Assistant Surgeons ; One Treasurer ; and One Quartermaster. According to the acts of 18(»i> and 1812, which have not been repealed,the C(.rps of Engineers forms part of the Military Academy, bur thoseacts have long ceased to be regarded in those particulars, wherein theduties subsequently imposed u()on the Corps of Engineers have renderedit impracticable to comply with them. The commander of the Cor;)s ofEngineers, from being the Superintendent, has become the Inspector.In the absence of the commamler the next in raidc is not Superintend-ent, but an officer of that corps is assigned to the supeiintendency byorders from the War Department. The course of instruction is exhibited in the following programme : 28 MILITARY ACADEMY AT WEST POINT.
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MILITARY ACADEMY AT WEST POINT. 29 MILITARY EDUCATION IN EUROPE. The general nature and extent of the military education most suit-able to the officers of our Army, arising from the peculiar condition ofour country and its military system, have been already indicated.AVith this in view, it may be well to examine the systems of militaryeducation in Europe, and to compare them with our own. The follow-ing account of the military schools of Europe is taken almost whollyfrom the re;)ort of the British commissioners appointed to consider thebest mode of reorganizing the English system of training officers forthe scientific corps. When quotation marks are used in the following))art of this paper, they indicate that the extracts are taken from tbereports of those commissioners. The remarks relating to the discussionas to the best course of instruction for the Jolytechnic School are de-rived from the report of the commission constituted, in 1830, to examinethat subject. Among the European sys

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