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Dennis Hart Mahan was the son of John and Mary (Cleary) Mahan and half-brother of Milo Mahan. He was born on April 2, 1802, in New York City shortly after the arrival of his parents from Ireland, but spent his boyhood in Norfolk, Verginia.
Having begun the study of medicine in Richmond, Mahan wished, also, to take up drawing. Finding no teacher and learning that drawing was taught at the United States Military Academy, he sought and obtained (1820) appointment as a cadet.
Graduating at the head of his class in 1824, he was assigned as a lieutenant to the corps of engineers. He also studied at the School of Application for Engineers and Artillery at Metz, France.
At the time it was the foremost school of its kind, numbering on its faculty officers who had seen service under Napoleon, and some of the most eminent French scientists.
From 1824 to 1826, Mahan was an assistant professor, first of mathematics and then of engineering, at the Academy. Because of his native talent and persevering industry, he was then sent by the War Department to Europe to study public works and military institutions with a view to improving the course at West Point. He remained abroad four years.
On his return to the United States he was appointed an assistant professor of civil and military engineering at the Military Academy, and in 1832, professor, which position he held until 1871. Instruction at that institution was then in its infancy and as there were no suitable textbooks for his course, he supplied the lack by lectures and lithographic notes, which became the groundwork of subsequent publications.
His Complete Treatise on Field Fortification, first published in 1836, was the standard work on this subject carried into the field by United States officers in both the Mexican and Civil wars. His Elementary Treatise on Advance-Guard, Out-Post, and Detachment Service of Troops (1847) was written during the Mexican War, and utilized by officers in the Civil War. Both were reprinted in Richmond for the use of the officers of the Confederate army.
His Elementary Course of Civil Engineering was first published in 1837 and, revised from time to time, was a standard text for many years. He also edited the American edition (1856) of Henry Moseley's Mechanical Principles of Engineering and Architecture. Though best known as the author of textbooks, he was an accomplished writer in other fields and contributed articles to periodicals on many subjects.
His loyalty to his country, its army, and the Military Academy was strong, and his pen was ever ready in their defense. In 1850, the governor of Virginia appointed him on a board of engineers to decide a controversy between that state and the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, and in 1871, he was appointed an overseer of Thayer School of Engineering of Dartmouth College.
In 1871, the board of visitors of the Academy recommended his retirement. He brooded over the fact and on a trip to New York to visit his physician, he stepped over the side of the boat and was drowned.
As a senior member of the academic board of the Academy, Mahan's influence in the development of that institution was preeminent through four decades. He was one of the fifty original incorporators of the National Academy of Sciences, a member of the Geographical Society of Paris and many other scientific associations. Mahan Hall at the United States Military Academy at West Point was named in his honor. Built in 1971, it houses the Academy's Departments of Civil & Mechanical Engineering (CME) and Systems Engineering. Mahan Hall at the U. S. Naval Academy and the Naval War College were named for his son, Alfred Thayer Mahan.
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In 1839, Mahan married Mary Helena Okill by whom he had three sons and two daughters. His sons all entered either the army or the navy.
Frederick A. Mahan graduated at the Military Academy and became an officer of the corps of engineers. Alfred Thayer Mahan and Dennis Hart Mahan graduated from the Naval Academy.
27 February 1815 - 8 March 1893
16 August 1852 - 25 August 1945
21 September 1843 - 1 March 1846
27 September 1840 - 1 December 1914
28 March 1847 - 26 November 1918
