The New International Encyclopædia/Bache, Hartman

BACHE, Hartman (1707-1872). An American engineer, bom in Philadelphia. He graduated at the United States Military Academy, and was appointed colonel of engineers in 1863. In 1805 he was brevetted brigadier-general. He was long employed in topographical surveying, and among his engineering works numbered the Delaware Breakwater and the Brandywine Lighthouse. He retired from active service in 1807.