Revolutionary War Forts

Author : René Chartrand
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472814470

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Forts of the American Revolution 1775-83 by René Chartrand Pdf

Though primarily fought in the field, the American Revolution saw fortifications play an important part in some of the key campaigns of the war. Field fortifications were developed around major towns including Boston, New York and Savannah, while the frontier forts at Stanwix, Niagara and Cumberland were to all be touched by the war. This book details all the types of fortification used throughout the conflict, the engineers on all sides who constructed and maintained them, and the actions fought around and over them.

Author : Michael Garlock
Publisher : Casemate
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781636242613

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Revolutionary War Forts by Michael Garlock Pdf

Covering the battles fought by the garrisons of the forts. The first of four volumes on Revolutionary War forts which together will provide a comprehensive overview. During the Revolutionary War, forts in New York were instrumental in initiating and maintaining America’s desire for independence and helped the nascent nation to eventually prevail. These forts saw crucial, campaign-determining naval battles, and pivotal land engagements between battle-hardened well-led British troops and unproven American militia. In both land and sea engagements the garrisons deployed a range of weapons including different calibers of smooth-bore cannon, howitzers, musket, bayonets, and even tomahawks. Covering Amsterdam, Clinton, Fort Clinton at West Point, Dayton, Decker, Flagstaff, Au Fer, Brooklyn, Defiance, Franklin, Golgotha, Herkimer, Jay, Klock, Montgomery, Niagra Old Stone Fort, Salonga, Stanwix, Ticonderoga, Wadsworth, and Washington, this expert text discusses design, armament, and current status of the forts. It explores their garrisons, commanders, and the battles fought, as well as the spatial and military dependent relationships these forts had with one another.

Author : Michael Edward Nogay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Fortification
ISBN : 0578018624

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Every Home a Fort, Every Man a Warrior by Michael Edward Nogay Pdf

Author : Dan Forth
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781430300175

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Seizing the Forts by Dan Forth Pdf

This novel of the Revolutionary War on Lake Champlain puts you in the middle of the exciting first months of action on the lake as bands of American volunteers seize Fort Ticonderoga from the British and then take the war north into Canada. It is nautical fiction, a story of ships and small boats and brave men challenging the mightiest empire in the world. This is the first book of a series set in the first year of the Revolution along the traditional lake and river passageways between the American settlements along the Hudson River and the British forces north of the lake. The hero is just who he should be: a young man who finds himself and his country in the confusion and danger of a stirring time in American history.

Author : Robert B. Roberts
Publisher : Rutherford : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Fortification
ISBN : UCAL:B4437447

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New York's Forts in the Revolution by Robert B. Roberts Pdf

Author : Wayne Lenig
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1792334982

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Fort Plain, Fort Plank, and Fort Rensselaer: Revolutionary War Forts at Canajohary, NY by Wayne Lenig Pdf

Author : Carl R. Crego
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0738535028

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Fort Ticonderoga by Carl R. Crego Pdf

Called "the Key to the Continent" and "the Gibraltar of the North," Fort Ticonderoga controlled the strategically critical portage between Lakes George and Champlain in the eighteenth century and played an important role in both the French and Indian War and the American Revolution. French troops began construction of the fort in 1755, calling it Fort Carillon. The British captured the fort in 1759 and renamed it Fort Ticonderoga. The storming of the fort on May 10, 1775, by Benedict Arnold, Ethan Allen, and the Green Mountain Boys was America's first victory of the Revolutionary War.

Author : David M. Griffin
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625858535

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Lost British Forts of Long Island by David M. Griffin Pdf

When the Revolutionary War broke out and New York City had fallen in 1776, the forces of the king of Great Britain developed a network of forts along the length of Long Island to defend the New York area and create a front to Patriot forces across the Sound in Connecticut. Fort Franklin on Lloyd's Neck became a refugee camp for Loyalists and saw frequent rebel attacks. In Huntington, a sacred burial ground was desecrated, and Fort Golgotha was erected in its place, using tombstones as baking hearths. In Setauket along the northern shore, the Presbyterian church was commandeered and made the central fortified structure of the town. Author David M. Griffin uncovers the lost history and harrowing stories of Long Island's British forts.

Author : William H. Carr,Richard J. Koke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258794276

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Twin Forts of the Popolopen by William H. Carr,Richard J. Koke Pdf

Author : Roger Sarty,Doug Knight,New Brunswick Military Heritage Project
Publisher : Fredericton, N.B. : Goose Lane Editions
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015057645668

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Saint John Fortifications, 1630-1956 by Roger Sarty,Doug Knight,New Brunswick Military Heritage Project Pdf

Saint John became a gateway to what is now Canada in the early 1600s, and Fort La Tour, built in 1632, was one of the three main forts of Acadie. In Saint John Fortifications, Roger Sarty and Doug Knight trace the history of the port's defences, from the earliest log palisades to the bunkers, gun emplacements, and communications stations built during World War II. Put to the test during the American Revolutionary War, Saint John has figured as one of Canada's most significant guardians. American independence effectively closed the shipping route between the mouth of the Richelieu River, on the St. Lawrence, and the mouth of the Hudson River, at New York City. Saint John took over some of this traffic, and so the 19th century wars and threatened wars between Canada and the United States resulted in bigger and better fortifications for the city. Each new defence system has incorporated the old, including the installations built as protection from German invasion during the two World Wars. Although the last of the modern installations on Partridge Island was disabled in 1956, many sites still contain substantial reminders of their past strength. Visitors today can trace the evidence of this great commercial port's military past. Saint John Fortifications, 1630-1956 is the first book in the New Brunswick Military Heritage Series published by Goose Lane Editions in collaboration with the New Brunswick Military Heritage Project.

Author : Bernard Cornwell
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-31
Category : Penobscot Expedition, 1779
ISBN : 0062063367

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The Fort Intl by Bernard Cornwell Pdf

After the British establish a fort on the Penobscot River, the Massachusetts patriots--among them General Peleg Wadsworth and Colonel Paul Revere--mount an expedition to oust the redcoats.

Author : René Chartrand
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472814463

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Forts of the American Revolution 1775-83 by René Chartrand Pdf

Though primarily fought in the field, the American Revolution saw fortifications play an important part in some of the key campaigns of the war. Field fortifications were developed around major towns including Boston, New York and Savannah, while the frontier forts at Stanwix, Niagara and Cumberland were to all be touched by the war. This book details all the types of fortification used throughout the conflict, the engineers on all sides who constructed and maintained them, and the actions fought around and over them.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1091206030

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Saint John Fortifications, 1630-1956 by Anonim Pdf

Saint John became a gateway to what is now Canada in the early 1600s, and Fort La Tour, built in 1632, was one of the three main forts of Acadie. In Saint John Fortifications, Roger Sarty and Doug Knight trace the history of the port's defences, from the earliest log palisades to the bunkers, gun emplacements, and communications stations built during World War II. Put to the test during the American Revolutionary War, Saint John has figured as one of Canada's most significant guardians. American independence effectively closed the shipping route between the mouth of the Richelieu River, on the St. Lawrence, and the mouth of the Hudson River, at New York City. Saint John took over some of this traffic, and so the 19th century wars and threatened wars between Canada and the United States resulted in bigger and better fortifications for the city. Each new defence system has incorporated the old, including the installations built as protection from German invasion during the two World Wars. Although the last of the modern installations on Partridge Island was disabled in 1956, many sites still contain substantial reminders of their past strength. Visitors today can trace the evidence of this great commercial port's military past. Saint John Fortifications, 1630-1956 is the first book in the New Brunswick Military Heritage Series published by Goose Lane Editions in collaboration with the New Brunswick Military Heritage Project.

Author : John Walker Guss
Publisher : Arcadia Library Editions
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1531670970

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Fort Pulaski by John Walker Guss Pdf

Forts are a lasting tribute to the prominence of the US military, and Fort Pulaski stands among these magnificent fortresses. Overlooking the mouth of the Savannah River and the Atlantic Ocean, Fort Pulaski is named in honor of Gen. Casimir Pulaski, Revolutionary War hero and father of the US Cavalry, which endured some of the most damaging artillery combat in early American warfare. In addition to its unfortunate notoriety for serving as the first fort where a rifled cannon was successfully tested in combat against masonry forts, it played a part in other significant events, including a baseball game during the Civil War where one of the first photographs of the sport was taken with the newly invented camera. Ultimately, the fort was considered important enough to be preserved and designated a national monument.

Author : CREATESPACE INDEPENDENT PUB,Of the American Revolution Pennsylvania
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1530437245

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Fort Duquesne and Fort Pitt by CREATESPACE INDEPENDENT PUB,Of the American Revolution Pennsylvania Pdf

CHRONOLOGY 1753-The French begin to build a chain of forts to enforce their boundaries. December 11, 1753.-Washington visits Fort Le Boeuf. January, 1754.-Washington lands on Wainwright's Island in the Allegheny river.-Recommends that a Fort be built at the "Forks of the Ohio." February 17, 1754.-A fort begun at the "Forks of the Ohio" by Capt. William Trent. April 16, 1754.-Ensign Ward, with thirty-three men, surprised here by the French, and surrenders. June, 1754.-Fort Duquesne completed. May 28, 1754.-Washington attacks Coulon de Jumonville at Great Meadows. July 9, 1755.-Braddock's defeat. April, 1758.-Brig. Gen. John Forbes takes command. August, 1758.-Fort Bedford built. October, 1758.-Fort Ligonier built. November 24, 1758.-Fort Duquesne destroyed by the retreating French. November 25, 1758.-Gen. Forbes takes possession. August, 1759.-Fort Pitt begun by Gen. John Stanwix. May, 1763.-Conspiracy of Pontiac. July, 1763.-Fort Pitt besieged by Indians. 1764.-Col. Henry Bouquet builds the Redoubt. October 10, 1772.-Fort Pitt abandoned by the British. January, 1774.-Dr. James Connelly occupies Fort Pitt with Virginia militia, and changes name to Fort Dunmore. July, 1776.-Indian conference at Fort Pitt.-Pontiac and Guyasuta. June 1, 1777.-Brig. Gen. Hand takes command of the fort. 1778.-Gen. McIntosh succeeds Hand. November, 1781.-Gen. William Irvine takes command. May 19, 1791.-Maj. Isaac Craig reports Fort Pitt in a ruinous condition.-Builds Fort Lafayette. September 4, 1805.-The historic site purchased by Gen. James O'Hara. April 1, 1894.-Mrs. Mary E. Schenley, granddaughter of Gen. James O'Hara, presents Col. Bouquet's Redoubt to the Daughters of the American Revolution of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.