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

Other author Babits, Lawrence Edward.
Other author Gandulla, Stephanie.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoGainesville : University Press of Florida,
Descriptionxx, 303 p., : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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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.
Abstract Explores how European forts were adapted for the special needs of the North American frontier.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [261]-286) and index.
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Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2013024206
ISBN9780813049069 (alk. paper)

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