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.

1864.

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.

C. A. ALVORD, ELECTROTYPER AND PRINTER.

LOVEJOY & SON, ELECTRO.

“I give it to my nx-i pinion, that but for our graduated Cadets, the war between the United States and Mexico might, and pr bubly would have lastedo das far or five years, with in its first half, mer victories fulling to our chure; whereas, in

campaigns we conquered a great country and u a pm, without the loss of a single Luttle or Skirmit" Doc. SENATE, 2D SECTION, XXXVI. Cong, 176, 1801.

WINFIELD NOTH.