Louis Lebegue Duportail
French
Architect - AsNotedIn
| Notable Position | Organization | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Continental Army | 1777 | 1781 |
Architect - AsNotedIn
| Notable Position | Organization | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Continental Army | 1777 | 1781 |
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1777/03/00 | Under an agreement between Benjamin Franklin and the government of King Louis XVI of France, Louis Duportail secretly travels to America to serve as the chief engineer in Continental Army. | Patriot Chief Engineer | |||||
| 1777/12/00 | Brigadier General Louis Duportail headquartered in the John Harvard House (probably above the original kitchen, rear of building) during the winter 1777-1778. | Patriot Chief Engineer | Cressbrook Farm | Chesterbrook | Valley Forge Encampment | ||
| 1778/08/00 | Supervised by DuPortail, French Marines from D'Estaing's fleet greatly expand the fort to (presumably) include the hilltop redoubt, detached batteries, a 30-gun water battery, barracks, hospital and cemetery (still visible). | Patriot Chief Engineer | Telegraph Hill | Hull, MA | |||
| 1781/10/24 | Washington orders the allied fortifications leveled | Patriot Chief Engineer | Yorktown Battlefield | Yorktown, VA | 1781 American Revolution - After Yorktown |
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