A trip around the world by one of Uncle Sam's tourists : typescript, [1902] / from the diary of Corp'l Francis E. DeForest.

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A trip around the world by one of Uncle Sam's tourists : typescript, [1902] / from the diary of Corp'l Francis E. DeForest.

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Extracts from diary kept during his service in the Signal Corps during and after the Spanish-American War. He visited Gibralter, Egypt, India, China, the Philippines, and Hawaii.

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Buffalo History Museum, Research Library

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Buffalo History Museum, Research Library

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United States. Army. Signal Corps

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Congress passed a resolution creating a national weather service on February 9, 1870, and it was signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. This new law directed the Secretary of War to take meterological observations and provide warnings of approaching storms. The Brevet Brigadier General Albert J. Myer and his Signal Service Corps were assigned this duty on February 25, 1870 by the Secretary of War. Weather observations began on November 1, 1870. In June 1872, Congress extended the weather...

DeForest, Francis E.

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Resident of Buffalo, N.Y. Worked as an inspector for the Buffalo Bureau of Engineering. From the description of A trip around the world by one of Uncle Sam's tourists : typescript, [1902] / from the diary of Corp'l Francis E. DeForest. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 181085085 ...