The archaeology of French and Indian War frontier forts /

Explores how European forts were adapted for the special needs of the North American frontier.

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Other Authors: Babits, Lawrence Edward, Gandulla, Stephanie
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2014]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Lawrence E. Babits
  • Clash of empires / R. Scott Stephenson
  • Forts on the frontier: adapting European military engineering to North America / James L. Hart
  • Fort Prince George, South Carolina / Marshall W. Williams
  • Fort Loudoun, Tennessee : defensive features and artifactual remains / Carl Kuttruff
  • Fort dobbs, North Carolina: how documents and artifacts led to rebuilding the fort / Lawrence E. Babits
  • Fort Loudoun, Virginia: a French and Indian War period fortification constructed by George Washington / Robert L. Jolley
  • The Second Fort Vause: a crucial French and Indian War fort in the Roanoke Valley of Virginia / Kim A. McBride
  • "To preserve the forts, and the families gathered into them": archaeology of Edwards's Fort, Capon Bridge, West Virginia / W. Stephen McBride
  • Fort Loudoun: a provincial fort on the mid-eighteenth-century Pennsylvania frontier / Stephen G. Warfel
  • Style wars in the wilderness: the colonial forts at Crown Point / Charles L. Fisher and Paul R. Huey
  • Fort Frontenac, Kingston, Ontario, Canada / Susan M. Bazely
  • Michilimackinac, a civilian fort / Lynn L. M. Evans
  • War and the colonial frontier: Fort de Chartres in the Illinois country / David J. Keene
  • Conclusion / Lawrence E. Babits.