Sylvanus Thayer

Kolonel dan Brevet Brigjen Sylvanus Thayer () 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 
Sylvanus Thayer lahir di Braintree, Massachusetts, sebagai putra dari pasangan petani Nathaniel Thayer dan istrinya Dorcas Faxon.Herman Hattaway, Michael D. Smith. "Thayer, Sylvanus"; American National Biography Online Feb. 2000, accessed ; American Council of Learned Societies. Published by Oxford University Press.

 Catatan 

 Referensi 
 Eiche, John H., dan Eicher, David J., Civil War High Commands. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. .
 Hunt, Roger D. dan Brown, Jack R. Brevet Brigadier Generals in Blue. Gaithersburg, MD: Olde Soldier Books, Inc., 1990. .
 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

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