An account of the enduring work of the Royal Engineers throughout the Empire
by
A.J Smithers
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 1998
The origin of the Corps of Royal Engineers, now affectionately known as The Sappers but then as the King's Military Engineers, has been traced as far as 1414, though it was not until 1716 that a permanent officer corps of engineers was established by the Board of Ordnance with the title Corps of Engineers.....