Fortress America: The Forts That Defended America, 1600 to the PresentDa Capo Press, 13 déc. 2004 - 416 pages From the earliest colonial settlements to recent Cold War bunkers, the North American continent has been home to thousands of forts and fortress structures. Seacoast forts were the nation's primary means of strategic defense from the 1790s until World War II. Almost every seaport on both coasts had at least one fort to protect it at one time or another. Inland forts were built to defend against attacks by Native Americans, or to defend against the English, the French, or the Spanish. So many forts were built-most in the 1800s-that there are few places in the continental United States more than fifty miles from a fort location. Yet, despite their prominence and importance, there has never been-until now-a single volume devoted to American forts and homeland fortification defense.As in their previous and very successful books, experts J. E. and H. W. Kaufmann include never-before-published photographs, extraordinary drawings, cut-aways, and diagrams to illustrate Fortress America . |
Table des matières
Acknowledgements | 6 |
New France 1750s | 12 |
New France and Louisiana | 13 |
Island of Cape Breton 1700s | 18 |
French Fur Trading Posts West of | 25 |
17th Century North America | 38 |
The British in North America | 39 |
Forts of Colonial AmericaSouth | 46 |
Siege of Charleston 1780 | 124 |
War of 1812 | 132 |
Fortifying America 17831815 | 133 |
Western Frontier 18001846 174 | 144 |
Great Plains Forts 196 | 165 |
Fortifications of the Expanding Frontiers | 175 |
The American Civil War | 235 |
PostCivil War Era and Transition | 297 |
Colonial New York Area | 58 |
Campaign Against Ft Duquesne 1754 | 64 |
Oswego 1750s | 76 |
American Revolution | 94 |
The American Revolution | 95 |
Defenses of New York City Area during | 103 |
Philadelphia Campaign of 1777 | 110 |
The End of Isolation and The BigGun Fortifications | 325 |
From Guns to the Missile Age | 369 |
Appendix | 393 |
Glossary | 403 |
411 | |
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