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Author : James Bentley
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Download or read book Fort towns of France written by James Bentley and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : René Chartrand
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849080267
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (49 download)
Download or read book French Fortresses in North America 1535–1763 written by René Chartrand and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-20 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the discovery of America by Columbus in 1492, European colonists brought their system of fortification to the New World in an attempt to ensure their safety and consolidate their conquests. French and British explorers came later to North America, and thus the establishment of their sizeable settlements only got under way during the 17th century. The inhabitants of New France built elaborate fortifications to protect their towns and cities. This book provides a detailed examination of the defenses of four of them: Québec, Montréal and Louisbourg in Canada, and New Orleans in Louisiana.
Author : LisaMarie Malischke
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Download or read book Heterogeneity of Early French and Native Forts, Settlements, and Villages written by LisaMarie Malischke and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fort St. Pierre was a French fort built in 1719 along the Yazoo River near modern-day Vicksburg, Mississippi. The area was home to Yazoo, Koroa, and Ofogoula peoples who were being courted by British merchants supplying trade goods. Unlike many other French frontier forts, this fort was not centered on a religious mission site but instead was intended as a commercial settlement. Despite an auspicious start to the Fort St. Pierre community, the plantation concessions quickly moved operations south. Only a few French individuals and a much reduced military force remained in the Yazoo Bluffs. Fort St. Pierre became an isolated outpost that endured privation, sickness, and a lack of supplies until its final destruction after a massacre in late 1729. Retribution and subsequent French attacks on the Native groups emptied the Yazoo Bluffs region of both colonists and Native inhabitants for close to 100 years. The site of Fort St. Pierre was excavated between 1974 and 1977. For this dissertation project I used new research questions to re-examine the whole artifact collection and field notes. First, I applied a generalizing site assemblage comparison approach using correspondence analysis to determine artifact patterning at contemporaneous French and Native forts, villages, and settlements throughout the Mississippi River corridor. Second, I applied a more individualizing approach to the inhabitants of Fort St. Pierre and their Native neighbors using architecture and associated artifacts, historical maps and documents, and firsthand accounts. This culminated in a chapter discussing daily life, French and Native interactions, and Fort St. Pierre as a failed colonial and sociopolitical endeavor. My project contributes to the field of anthropology by placing the history and events of this fort within the larger narrative of French and Native interactions along the Mississippi River Corridor, as well as providing a mixed-methods approach to whole sites and assemblages which results in a more complete picture of the past, specifically at the case study site of Fort St. Pierre.
Author : Paddy Griffith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472800230
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)
Download or read book The Vauban Fortifications of France written by Paddy Griffith and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-20 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vauban was the foremost military engineer of France, not only during his lifetime, but also throughout the 18th century when his legacy and methods remained in place almost unchanged. Indeed, his expertise and experience in the construction, defence, and attack of fortresses is unrivalled by any of his contemporaries, of any nationality. In all three of those fields he was a significant innovator and prolific exponent, having planned approximately 160 major defensive projects and directed over 50 sieges. This book provides not only a modern listing of his varied interventions and their fates, but also a wide-ranging discussion of just how and why they pushed forward the international boundaries of the arts of fortification.
Author : Joseph Thomas
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Total Pages : 1212 pages
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Author : Jean-Denis G.G. Lepage
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786456981
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Vauban and the French Military Under Louis XIV written by Jean-Denis G.G. Lepage and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-12-21 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A man of inventiveness, versatility and reformist ideas, Marshal Sebastien Le Preste de Vauban built a formidable ring of fortresses to protect France's national frontiers. More than just a fortification designer, Vauban was also a gifted economist, author, and political strategist. This book tells the complete story of Vauban's exceptional career, placing him within the framework of Louis XIV's reign and revealing his lasting influences in France and other nations. With the aid of numerous detailed drawings, 17th century bastioned fortification, artillery, and seige warfare are described in detail. Vauban's fortifications that are still standing today are particularly highlighted.
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Author : David F. Marley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1576075745
Total Pages : 1031 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (76 download)
Download or read book Historic Cities of the Americas [2 volumes] written by David F. Marley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-09-12 with total page 1031 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With rare maps, prints, and photographs, this unique volume explores the dramatic history of the Americas through the birth and development of the hemisphere's great cities. Written by award-winning author David F. Marley, Historic Cities of the Americas covers the hard-to-find information of these cities' earliest years, including the unique aspects of each region's economy and demography, such as the growth of local mining, trade, or industry. The chronological layout, aided by the numerous maps and photographs, reveals the exceptional changes, relocations, destruction, and transformations these cities endured to become the metropolises they are today. Historic Cities of the Americas provides over 70 extensively detailed entries covering the foundation and evolution of the most significant urban areas in the western hemisphere. Critically researched, this work offers a rare look into the times prior to Christopher Columbus' arrival in 1492 and explores the common difficulties overcome by these European-conquered or -founded cities as they flourished into some of the most influential locations in the world.
Author : Thomas Salmon
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Total Pages : 536 pages
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Author : Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Total Pages : 542 pages
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Download or read book Encyclopædia Britannica: or, A dictionary of arts and sciences, compiled by a society of gentlemen in Scotland [ed. by W. Smellie]. 24 vols. and Index written by Encyclopaedia Britannica and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lawrence E. Babits
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813048583
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Archaeology of French and Indian War Frontier Forts written by Lawrence E. Babits and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fort Ticonderoga, the allegedly impenetrable star fort at the southern end of Lake Champlain, is famous for its role in the French and Indian War. But many other one-of-a-kind forts were instrumental in staking out the early American colonial frontier. On the 250th anniversary of this often-overlooked conflict, this volume musters an impressive range of scholars who tackle the lesser-known but nonetheless historically significant sites from barracks to bastions. Civilian, provincial, or imperial, the fortifications covered in this book range from South Carolina's Fort Prince George to Fort Frontenac in Ontario and to Fort de Chartres in Illinois. These forts were built during the first serious arms race on the continent, as Europeans and colonists struggled to control the lucrative fur trade routes of the northern boundary. The contributors to this volume reveal how the French and British adapted their fortification techniques to the special needs of the North American frontier. By exploring the unique structures that guarded the borderlands, this book reveals much about the underlying economies and dynamics of the broader conflict that defined a critical period of the American experience.
Author : Findlay Muirhead
Publisher : London, Macmillan and Company, Limited
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Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The French Alps written by Findlay Muirhead and published by London, Macmillan and Company, Limited. This book was released on 1923 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 : 9781845662707
Total Pages : 960 pages
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Author : The National Archives
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472827619
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)
Download or read book Forts written by The National Archives and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since humans began to live together in settlements they have felt the need to organise some kind of defence against potentially hostile neighbours. Many of the earliest city states were built as walled towns, and during the medieval era, stone castles were built both as symbols of the defenders' strength and as protection against potential attack. The advent of cannon prompted fortifications to become lower, denser and more complex, and the forts of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries could appear like snowflakes in their complexity and beautiful geometry. Without forts, the history of America could have taken a very different course, pirates could have sailed the seas unchecked, and Britain itself could have been successfully invaded. This book explains the history of human fortifications, and is beautifully illustrated using photographs, plans, drawings and maps to explain why they were built, their various functions and their immense historical legacy in laying the foundations of empire.
Author : Martin Robson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857728784
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)
Download or read book A History of the Royal Navy written by Martin Robson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-21 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Seven Years War (1756-1763) was the first global conflict and became the key factor in creating the British Empire. This book looks at Britain's maritime strategic, operational and tactical success (and failures), through a wide-ranging history of the Royal Navy's role in the war. By the end of the war in 1763 Britain was by no means a hegemonic power, but it was the only state capable of sustained global power projection on a global scale. Key to Britain's success was political and strategic direction from London, through the war planning of Pitt the Elder and the successful implementation of his policies by a stellar cast of naval and military leaders at an operational and tactical level. Martin Robson highlights the work of some of the key protagonists in the Royal Navy, such as Admiral Hawke whose appreciation of the wider strategic context at Quiberon Bay in 1759 decided the fate of North America, but he also provides insights into the experience of life in the lower decks at this time. Robson ultimately shows that the creation, containment and expansion of the British Empire was made possible by the exercise of maritime power through the Royal Navy.
