The archaeology of French and Indian War frontier forts / edited by Lawrence E. Babits and Stephanie Gandulla.

Contributor(s): Babits, Lawrence Edward | Gandulla, StephanieMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2014]Copyright date: 2014Description: 1 online resource (324 pages) : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780813048581Subject(s): Fortification -- United States -- History | Excavations (Archaeology) -- United States | Historic sites -- United States | United States -- History -- French and Indian War, 1754-1763Genre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Archaeology of French and Indian War frontier forts.DDC classification: 973.2/6 LOC classification: E199 | .A73 2014Online resources: Click to View
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.
Summary: Explores how European forts were adapted for the special needs of the North American frontier.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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