#west point

[caystar13star]

Army is really upping the trash talk for the game today 😂😂

#army vs navy #top gun #west point #naval academy #pete maverick mitchell #nick goose bradshaw

[blackfolksintime]

West Point Buffalo Soldiers, 1920s

#1920s #buffalo soldiers #black history #black vintage #black excellence #west point

[ifelllikeastar]

Captain Colin Kelly was a World War II B-17 Flying Fortress pilot who flew bombing runs against the Japanese navy in the first days after the Pearl Harbor attack. He is remembered as one of the first American heroes of the war after ordering his crew to bail out while he remained at the bomber's controls trying to keep the plane in the air before it exploded, killing him. His was the first American B-17 to be shot down in combat.

* Kelly was with the 14th Bombardment Squadron, 19th Bombardment Group, United States Army Air Corps

Colin Purdie Kelly Jr. died December 10, 1941 at the age of 26.

#love #wwii #vintage #pearl harbor #B-17 #united states #army air corps #west point #respect #remembrance #flying fortress #colin kelly #hero #1940s #florida #philippines #december

[kemetic-dreams]

#african #afrakan #kemetic dreams #africans #afrakans #brown skin #brownskin #henry ossian flipper #african american #united states military academy #west point #military #military history #military industrial complex #soldiers

[libraryofva]

Recent Acquisition - Ephemera Collection

West Point Drive-In Theatre. Sunday, Mar. 29th.

Florence Marie Longest Scrapbook

#movie #drive in #movie theater #1950s #West Point #VA #Virginia #vintage #ephemera

[pplndplcs]

Princess Harris, 17, sleeps with her son Annointed in West Point. She named him Annointed so he would be blessed after her mother sent her away and the baby’s father refused to recognize the baby as his. Princess dreams of going back to school and becoming a human rights lawyer to fight for women and children’s rights. She sings Annointed lullabies about her hopes for the future.

HANNAH REYES MORALES

#HANNAH REYES MORALES #Liberia #Africa #youth #family #children #mothers #princess Harris #baby #women #west point

[unteriors]

Shoemaker Road, West Point, Georgia.

#West Point #Georgia

[todaysdocument]

Letter from Lt. Henry O. Flipper to Representative John A. T. Hull Regarding a Bill Introduced to Congress to Reinstate Lt. Flipper into the Army and Restore His Rank

Record Group 233: Records of the U.S. House of Representatives Series: Committee Papers

Henry O. Flipper Member "Association of Civil Engineers of Arizona" Deputy U.S. Mineral Surveyor Consultations on Mexican Land and Mining Laws Notary Public Santa Fe, New Mexico, October 23, 1898. Hon. John A. T. Hull, Desmoines, Iowa. Dear Sir: I send you, in this mail and under separate cover, a printed copy of the Brief I have prepared in my case under Bill, H.R. 9849, which was so kindly introduced in the House for me by the Hon. Michael Griffin, at the last session of Congress. In May last I submitted to you and to the members of the Sub-Committee a type-written copy of a Brief I had hastily prepared in Washington. I have carefully rewritten and revised that Brief and now send you a copy for your perusal and consideration. In coming to Congress with my case, I do so because there is no individual or other tribunal to which I can go, no official or other official body with power to review the case and grant or refuse my petition. In coming to you, to the Committee and the Congress, I do not ask that aught be done for me from motives of mere sympathy and yet I cannot help feeling that all of us can and do sympathize with those who have been wronged. I am sure that, after reading my Brief through, you will understand and appreciate the struggle I made to rise above the station to which I was born, how I won my way through West Point and how I made as honorable a record in the Army as any officer in it, in spite of

J. A. T. H. -2- the isolation, lack of social association, ostracism and what not to which I was subjected by the great majority of my brother officers. You will recognize also the almost barbarous treatment to which I was subjected at the time I was accused and tried. It will not be possible, I apprehend, for you or any member of the Committee to wade through the 1000 or more pages of the record, nor is it necessary, but, if you should do so, you will readily be convinced that the rime of being a Negro was, in my case, far more heinous than deceiving the commanding officer. My utter helplessness and conviction then arose from that cause and without the generous assistance of yourself and the other gentlemen of the Committee, in Committee and on the floor of the House, I shall be equally helpless now. I believe my case is a strong one as well as a meritorious one and one that will commend itself to you for approval and will enlist your sympathy and support. I ask nothing because I am a Negro, yet that fact must press itself upon your consideration as a strong motive for the wrong done me as well as a powerful reason for righting that wrong. I ask only what Congress has seen fit to grant to others similarly situated. I ask only that justice which every American citizen has the right to ask and which Congress alone has the power to grant. In my Brief I offer for your consideration two cases,

one occurring before my trial and of which I should have had the benefit as a precedent, and the other occurring after my trial. They will show you how white officers of long years of experience and of high rank have been treated for the same offense as that for which I was tried and dismissed. I also present six precedents in which Congress has granted to dismissed offers precisely what I am asking. I do not believe Congress ever had before it a case as deserving of favorable action as my case, and for that reason I do not hesitate to appeal to you and to ask you to champion it for me and to see that both the Committee and the House take speedy and favorable action and pass the bill just as Mr. Griffin introduced it without amendment of any character. You will have my gratitude and that of my entire race, as well as the satisfaction of having righted a great wrong done to a member of a harmless but despised and friendless race. Relying upon you, as I do, I have the honor to be, Very truly yours, Henry O. Flipper [handwritten signature]

#archivesgov #October 23 #1898 #19th century #West Point #buffalo soldiers #Henry O. Flipper #us army

[the-cricket-chirps]

Winslow Homer

West Point, Prout's Neck

1900

Clark Art Institute Collection

#winslow homer #homer #seascape #american art #american artists #ocean view #prouts neck #west point #beautiful views #orange sky #tumblrstyle #tumblr art #tumblrpic #tumblraesthetic #aesthetictumblr #tumblrlove #tumblrposts

[20th-century-railroading]

Cotton Belt GP35 #6513 and GP30 #5006 lead a southbound freight over the Route 543 overpass at West Point, Texas on the Southern Pacific, circa 1983. Mike Bledsoe photo.

#ssw #cotton belt #1983 #trains #freight train #history #west point #texas

[gingit-cake]

Cadet Chapel at West Point, where Ian and Mickey will someday be married in an AU.

#shameless #mickey milkovich #ian gallagher #gallavich #shameless us #ian gallagher and mickey milkovich #Gallavich IRL #gallavich fandom #west point #Cadet Ian #shameless s2 #shameless au #fanfic suggestions

[nordleuchten]

Major Tousard's letter to Georges de La Fayette

The following letter was written by Major Lewis (Louis) Tousard and is addressed to Georges de La Fayette. Tousard had served under La Fayette during the American Revolution and had returned to America in 1795 during the French Revolution. He obtained an American military commissioned and helped set up the precursor of the West Point Military Academy as well as designing Forts Adams and Hamilton. Tousard later returned to France and died in Paris in 1817:

West Point June the 14th 1796

Sir

I hope that Mr. la colombe will not have neglected to present to you my regrets of not having had the honour of seeing you before my departure, and to thank you of that which you have done to me, in calling upon me the day before my setting off for Washington. Immediately afterwards, my duty called me at West Point; and Keeps me there in a moment where an urging interest would dictate to me to go to Philadelphia, in order to claim the justice and the indulgence of the President of the United States in favour of my brother in law, a young man twenty two years old, at the moment of falling under the efforts of some enemys whom too guard a vivacity and some indiscret words have armed against him.

favoured with repeated marks of friendship and protection by your unfortunate father, and full of gratitude, I address myself with confidence to his son, well convinced that the sentiments which have always distinguished the father, cannot fail to be unimpressed in his son’s heart, and that he will do anything in his power towards the great Man who in this moment is a father to him, to prevent the ruin of a young man quiet tampered and indiscreet but full of honour and courage; that he will employ all the attachments with which he is honoured by his second father, to obtain justice or the forgiveness of offences which it would have been very easy for me to reduce to their right value, if, as requested lieutenant Simon Goddes, he had obtained the delay necessary for me to arrive and if [illegible] his Sire judges there had not been three who were evidences against him, and whom he had [illegible]

in any other circumstance I would not take the liberty of writing you to make any use of the President’s friendship for you; but his sentiments of indulgence and humanity are Known: he will never be displeased of you having procured him an opportunity of preserving the honor and profession of a young man who has devoted himself to the Service of his country, and of saving the live of a respectable mother, who would not survive the infamy with which her son should be stained: finally (if my feelings can but any way regarded) of saving to me after thirty two years of actual Service the pain of being involved in the dishonour of the family, whither to blameless, to which I have connected myself.

I take the honour to be with respect, Sir, your most humble and obedient of Servant

(signed) Lewis Tousard

My direction is: major Lewis tousard

Commandant at West Point.

Peeks Kill.

George Washington Papers, Series 4, General Correspondence: Lewis Tousard to George Washington Motier Lafayette. 1796. Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/mgw440089/> on 04/19/2023.

#georges de la fayette #marquis de lafayette #la fayette #george washington #lewis tousard #french history #french revolution #american history #american revolution #letters #1796 #handwriting #library of congress #1795 #1817 #west point

[libraryofva]

Recent Acquisition - Ephemera Collection

1920s Autograph Album. Original owner is unidentified, but many of the signatures are from West Point, VA.

#autograph #signatures #West Point #VA #Virginia #1920s #quotes

[unteriors]

Lily Valley Circle, West Point, California.

#West Point #California