Sylvanus Thayer
Tampilan
Sylvanus Thayer | |
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Sylvanus Thayer, lukisan karya Robert Weir | |
Julukan | "Bapak West Point" |
Lahir | Braintree, Massachusetts | 9 Juni 1785
Meninggal | 7 September 1872 Braintree, Massachusetts | (umur 87)
Tempat pengkebumian | West Point Cemetery, Highland Falls, NY[1] |
Pengabdian | Amerika Serikat |
Dinas/cabang | United States Army Union Army |
Lama dinas | 1808 – 1863 |
Pangkat | |
Komandan | Superintenden Akademi Militer Amerika Serikat |
Perang/pertempuran | Perang tahun 1812 |
Kolonel dan Brevet Brigjen Sylvanus Thayer (9 Juni 1785 – 7 September 1872) yang juga dikenal sebagai "Bapak West Point" adalah seorang superintenden awal dari Akademi Militer Amerika Serikat di West Point dan advokat awal pendidikan insinyur di Amerika Serikat.
Kehidupan awal dan pendidikan
[sunting | sunting sumber]Sylvanus Thayer lahir di Braintree, Massachusetts, sebagai putra dari pasangan petani Nathaniel Thayer dan istrinya Dorcas Faxon.[2]
Catatan
[sunting | sunting sumber]- ^ (Inggris) "Sylvanus Thayer". Find a Grave. Diakses tanggal October 17, 2010.
- ^ Herman Hattaway, Michael D. Smith. "Thayer, Sylvanus"; American National Biography Online Feb. 2000, accessed [1]; American Council of Learned Societies. Published by Oxford University Press.
Referensi
[sunting | sunting sumber]- Eiche, John H., dan Eicher, David J., Civil War High Commands. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-8047-3641-3.
- Hunt, Roger D. dan Brown, Jack R. Brevet Brigadier Generals in Blue. Gaithersburg, MD: Olde Soldier Books, Inc., 1990. ISBN 1-56013-002-4.
- Kershner, James William, Sylvanus Thayer – A Biography, Arno Press, New York, 1982, p. 329.
- Eliot, Major George Fielding, Sylvanus Thayer of West Point, Messner, 1959
- Lathem, Edward Connery, editor, The Beginnings of the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College. The Thayer School of Engineering, Hanover, NH, 1964
Pranala luar
[sunting | sunting sumber]"Thayer, Sylvanus". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. 1889.
- Film pendek Big Picture: Sylvanus Thayer of West Point tersedia untuk diunduh secara gratis di the Internet Archive [selebihnya]
- Film pendek STAFF FILM REPORT 66-21A (1966) tersedia untuk diunduh secara gratis di the Internet Archive [selebihnya]