Fortress America : the forts that defended America, 1600 to the present /: the forts that defended America, 1600 to the present. (2007)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: J.E. Kaufmann and H.W. Kaufmann ; illustrated by Tomasz Idzikowski.
• Other Names: Kaufmann, J. E; Kaufmann, H. W; Idzikowski, Tomasz
• Contents: New France and Louisiana -- Fortifying Quebec and Access to the Mouth of the St. Lawrence -- Forts of the Great Lakes Wilderness -- The Lower Mississippi and Gulf Coast Forts -- The Acadia and Lake Champlain/Richelieu River Corridor -- Fortified Road to the Ohio Valley -- The British in North America -- Early English Colonization: The Southern Colonies -- English and Dutch Colonization North of the Chesapeake -- Eighteenth-Century New England Frontier and King George's War -- The French and Indian War: War of the Forts -- Other Forts of the Thirteen Colonies -- Indian Uprising of 1763 -- The American Revolution -- The War for Independence Begins -- The Delaware River Forts of 1777 -- Defending the Highlands of the Hudson -- Other Fortified Posts and Cities of the American Revolution -- Fortifying America: 1783-1815 -- Occupation and Defense of the Northwest Territory -- Creation of the Army Engineers and the First System of Coastal Defenses -- The Second System of Coastal Defenses -- Canada Before the War of 1812 -- The War of 1812 -- Fortifications of the Expanding Frontiers -- The Frontier and Foreign Encroachment -- Seminole Wars and the Forts of Florida -- Wars of Expansion and New Forts on the Frontier -- The Third System of Coastal Defenses -- Some Features of Third System Forts -- The Challenge of the 1850s -- The American Civil War -- First Actions: Battles of the Forts -- Western Theater of War 1862 -- The Eastern Theater of War -- Failure of the Forts in the Western Theater in 1863 -- Clearing the Coast-1863 to 1865 -- In Defense of Richmond -- Four Fortresses and the Keys to Victory -- Post-Civil War Era and Transition -- Winning the West -- Canadian Defense Against the United States -- The Question of Fortifications and Coast Defense -- The Endicott Board and a New System -- The End of Isolation and The Big-Gun Fortifications -- Change in Fortifications and Weapons -- The Characteristics of Coastal Fortifications until 1920 -- Modernization of the Coastal Defenses after 1920 -- The Lean Years -- Preparing for War -- World War II Comes to America -- America's "Atlantic Wall" -- From Guns to the Missile Age -- Spreading the Net -- Antiaircraft Artillery -- The Soviet Threat and Missile Defense from 1950s to 1960s -- Defenses for the Offensive Weapons: the ICBMs -- New Defense Against Missiles -- Command, Communication, and Security -- Important Forts of the French and Indian War -- Battles of War of 1812 Involving Fortifications -- 1st and 2nd System Forts 1790-1812 -- Forts of the Bernard/Totten 3rd System -- Weapons of the Endicott Era for Coast Defense -- Coastal and Harbor Defenses-1903-1944 -- Harbor Entrance Command Posts 1941 to 1946 -- Major Radars of the Cold War.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Da Capo Press
• Publication Date: 2007
• Extent: 1 online resource (416 pages)
• Subjects: 623.197 KAU; Fortification -- United States -- History; Coast defenses -- United States -- History; Ballistic missile defenses -- United States -- History; Radar defense networks -- Canada -- History; Military readiness; Ballistic missile defenses; Coast defenses; Fortification; Military readiness; Radar defense networks; United States -- History, Military; Canada; United States; History; Military history
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780306816345; 0306816342
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.