Fortifications in Alexandria and Annapolis
Document 1794Knox offers John Vermonnet the opportunity to direct the works and building of fortifications at Alexandria and Annapolis. Alexandria will command the engineer's immediate attention, along the Potomac River. As engineer in the service of the War Department, Vermonnet is to deliver to the Governor of Virginia copies of all his plans. He is also to make a weekly report to the War Department of his proceedings.
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Printed Document
Description
Knox offers John Vermonnet the opportunity to direct the works and building of fortifications at Alexandria and Annapolis. Alexandria will command the engineer's immediate attention, along the Potomac River. As engineer in the service of the War Department, Vermonnet is to deliver to the Governor of Virginia copies of all his plans. He is also to make a weekly report to the War Department of his proceedings.
Date
05/12/1794
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Department
Collection
Document number
1794051200100
Notable persons
John Vermonnet
Henry Knox
engineer
John Jacob Rivardi
Digges
Colonel Fitzgerald
governor
[Henry Lee]
Notable locations
War Department
Annapolis
Maryland
Alexandria
Virginia
Potomac River
France
Notable items
Fortifications
bluff
labor
materials
parapets
works
earth
sod
knotgrass
islands
land
barrack
block house
cannon
magazine
timber
battery
red hot balls