Share This Article 1. This was the first of two “miracle years” the English military had during the 1700s. 1783 1706 1776 1725 2. In 1898, this man received a grant from the U.S. government to develop an airplane. Glenn Curtiss Samuel Langley Charles Manly Orville Wright 3. This writer was the primary theorist behind American military thought at the start of the Civil War. Carl Clausewitz Lazare Carnot Antoine Jomini Maurice of Nassau Loading …