Report of the Committee on the Military Establishment
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Report of the Committee on the Military Establishment
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Report of Committee on the Military Establishment discusses staffing and manpower issues related to the British relinquishment of military garrisons inside U.S. territory. Also discusses frontier and pioneer life; discusses frontier fortifications and garrisons; describes pay of troops; discusses Indian warfare; discusses Foreign affairs.
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Rpt, des Military Establishment
year created
1784
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Mercer
Lee
Gerry
Howell
Paine
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Lake Champlain
Lake Superior
Mouth of Scioto
Scioto River
Sandusky River
Rapids and mouth of the Ohio River
Illinois River
Rhode Island
Connecticut
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Maryland
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
West Point
New York
Michilimackinac
Canada
Fort Erie
Massachusetts
Fort Pitt
Niagara
Oswego
Detroit
New Hampshire
United States
notable item/thing
artificers
matrosses
adjutant general and 1 inspector general
engineers
non-commissioned officers and privates
cloth coat, waistcoat and overalls
linen frock
linen overalls
leathern stocks
hat
Lieutenant Colonel
Major
adjutant
Quartermaster serjeant
music serjeant
drummers & fifers
privates
quartermaster captain
surgeon
mates
pay and cloathing master captain
[clothing]
surgeon's mate
resolved that the troops to be raised be formed into three battalions of infantry and one of artillery
establishment of a battalion of infantry
pay per month
supplying the troops at those posts
magazines to be erected convenient for the transportation of supplies from different points
extra pay due by contract
sufficient number of staff officers
drum & fife
serjeants
ensigns
lieutenants
Captains
majors
Lt. Colonels
Colonels
march to such of the above posts as may be most convenient, taking care to have well secured the storesthat remian there
endeavor to effect an exchange with the British commanding officer in Canada of the cannon and stores at the post
commanding officer of the troops now in service of the United States be and he is hereby directed to open a correspondence with the commander in chief of his Britannic majesty's forces in Canada in order to ascertain the precise time when each of the posts within the territories of the United States now occupied by British troops shall be delivered up
endeavored so to model their plan that it may become a part of the general system when adopted
confined themselves to those details which it may be necessary to promulgate for the satisfaction of the officers and soldiers to be employed
Congress determine on a peace establishment
terms for which the men now in service are enlisted wil shortly expire
committee conceived it their duty to prepare a plan for raising the number of troops required for the defence of th enorth western frontier
exonerating those states from this burden might be considered as an act of injustice
recommend the employment of troops already in service in preference to raising others, the unavoidable delay of which might endanger the destuction of the greater works
best information your committee can procure
troops retained by the United States
double the pay allowed
objects cannot be obtained but by considerable force and that much detached
overbalanced by the inconveniences arising fom the great distance of the posts, their exposed situation and the expence attending them
opinion of Congress
all sipatch should be used in making the necessary arrangements for taking possession of the other posts
establishment of such additional posts as may be necessary for the defence of the Western territory proposed to be purchased of the Indian inhabitants
your ambassador considered these measures as connected and indeed inseparable
posts to be relinquished by the British will extend but little protection to settlers in the new country
number of troops requisite to garrison them must in a great measure be regulated by the number and force of such other posts
extending of garrisons to the northward or to the westward
protect the peltry and fur trades
keep a watch upon our neighbours and to their encroachment on our territory unobserved
appointed to consider of the measures proper to be adopted in order to take possession of the frontier posts
considered the same and sundry papers
accomplish what they conceive to be the orders of congress two objectives appear to them as intimately blended and equally necessary
taking possession of the fortifications of the United States now occupied by British troops
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