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The First American Regiment was renamed the Regiment of Infantry on September 29, 1789, when the United States Army was formally instituted under the Constitution of the United States. [7] In 1790, Harmar – who had been breveted as a brigadier general in 1787 – led 320 regulars and over 1,000 militia on the disastrous Harmar campaign in ...
[2]: 19 Doughty served as commandant from September 29, 1789 to March 4, 1791 and the battalion was recognized as a part of the United States Army. William Ferguson succeeded Doughty as commandant (serving from March 4, 1791 to November 4, 1791, when he was killed in action) and was himself succeeded by Henry Burbeck (serving from November 4 ...
September 25 – The United States Congress proposes a set of 12 amendments for ratification by the states. Ratification for 10 of these proposals is completed on December 15, 1791, creating the United States Bill of Rights. September 29 – The U.S. Department of War establishes the nation's first regular army, with a strength of several ...
The Beginnings of the US Army, 1783-1812 by James Ripley Jacobs, 1945. Historical Register and Dictionary of the US Army, from its Organization, September 29, 1789 to March 2, 1903, Volume I and II, Washington, DC, GPO, 1903. Senator John Heinz State Papers, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh.
In 1796, the United States Army was raised following the discontinuation of the legion of the United States. In 1798, during the Quasi-War with France, the U.S. Congress established a three-year " Provisional Army " of 10,000 men, consisting of twelve regiments of infantry and six troops of light dragoons.
Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, From Its Organization, September 29, 1789, to 2 March 1903. Vol. I. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. p. 890. Subbs, Mary Lee; Connor, Stanley Russell (1969). ARMOR-CAVALRY Part I: Regular Army and Army Reserve. 69-60002: United States Army Center of Military History.
The history of the United States from 1776 to 1789 was marked by the nation's transition from the American Revolutionary War to the establishment of a novel constitutional order. As a result of the American Revolution, the thirteen British colonies emerged as a newly independent nation, the United States of America, between 1776 and 1789.
Cullum, George W. Biographical Registers of the Officers and Graduates of the United States Military Academy. Vol. 2. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1891. Heitman, Francis B. Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, From its Organization, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903. Volume 1.