The Archaeology of French and Indian War Frontier Forts /edited by Lawrence E. Babits and Stephanie Gandulla. - Gainesville : University Press of Florida, (c)2013. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographies and index.

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

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



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Fortification--History.--United States
Excavations (Archaeology)--United States.
Historic sites--United States.


Electronic Books.

E199 / .A734 2014