Fortress America : the forts that defended America, 1600 to the present /: the forts that defended America, 1600 to the present. (2007)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Fortress America : the forts that defended America, 1600 to the present /: the forts that defended America, 1600 to the present. (2007)
- Main Title:
- Fortress America : the forts that defended America, 1600 to the present
- 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 theNew 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. … (more)
- 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
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