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