Fortress America : The Forts That Defended America, 1600 to the Present

by Kaufmann, J. E.

ISBN13: 9780306815508

ISBN10: 0306815508

Format: Paperback

Pub. Date: 2007-05-28

Publisher(s): Perseus Books Group

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Summary

From the earliest colonial settlements to Cold War bunkers, the North American continent has been home to thousands of forts and fortress structures.Fortress Americasurveys the broad sweep of fortifications throughout North America-from seacoast forts of the late eighteenth century to wooden inland forts built to defend against Native American, English, French, or Spanish attack; from Civil War-era coastal and inland waterways forts to the Great Plains' forts of the Old West; from World War II subterranean bunkers to Cold War concrete missile silos. The text ofFortress Americais complemented with never-before-published photographs, and extraordinary drawings, cut-aways, and diagrams illustrating the design and structure of American forts.

Author Biography

J.E. Kaufmann is the author of six books on fortifications. He and his wife, H.W. Kaufmann, live in San Antonio, Texas. H.W. Kaufmann is the wife of J.E. Kaufmann, the author of six books on fortifications. They live in San Antonio, Texas.

Acknowledgements	p. 6
Prologue	p. 7
New France and Louisiana	p. 13
Fortifying Quebec and Access to the Mouth of the St. Lawrence	p. 16
Forts of the Great Lakes Wilderness	p. 21
The Lower Mississippi and Gulf Coast Forts	p. 26
The Acadia and Lake Champlain/Richelieu River Corridor	p. 31
Fortified Road to the Ohio Valley	p. 36
The British in North America	p. 39
Early English Colonization: The Southern Colonies	p. 41
English and Dutch Colonization North of the Chesapeake	p. 52
Eighteenth-Century New England Frontier and King George's War	p. 60
The French and Indian War: War of the Forts	p. 63
Other Forts of the Thirteen Colonies	p. 87
Indian Uprising of 1763	p. 92
The American Revolution	p. 95
The War for Independence Begins	p. 100
The Delaware River Forts of 1777	p. 108
Defending the Highlands of the Hudson	p. 113
Other Fortified Posts and Cities of the American Revolution	p. 121
Fortifying America: 1783-1815	p. 133
Occupation and Defense of the Northwest Territory	p. 133
Creation of the Army Engineers and the First System of Coastal Defenses	p. 142
The Second System of Coastal Defenses	p. 146
Canada Before the War of 1812	p. 152
The War of 1812	p. 156
Fortifications of the Expanding Frontiers	p. 175
The Frontier and Foreign Encroachment	p. 175
Seminole Wars and the Forts of Florida	p. 192
Wars of Expansion and New Forts on the Frontier	p. 194
The Third System of Coastal Defenses	p. 205
Some Features of Third System Forts	p. 228
The Challenge of the 1850s	p. 230
The American Civil War	p. 235
First Actions: Battles of the Forts	p. 236
Western Theater of War 1862	p. 240
The Eastern Theater of War	p. 250
Failure of the Forts in the Western Theater in 1863	p. 260
Clearing the Coast-1863 to 1865	p. 271
In Defense of Washington D.C.	p. 280
In Defense of Richmond	p. 285
Four Fortresses and the Keys to Victory	p. 293
Post-Civil War Era and Transition	p. 297
Winning the West	p. 297
Canadian Defense Against the United States	p. 304
The Question of Fortifications and Coast Defense	p. 305
The Endicott Board and a New System	p. 311
The End of Isolation and The Big-Gun Fortifications	p. 325
Change in Fortifications and Weapons	p. 325
The Characteristics of Coastal Fortifications until 1920	p. 328
Modernization of the Coastal Defenses after 1920	p. 332
The Lean Years	p. 336
Preparing for War	p. 340
World War II Comes to America	p. 341
America's "Atlantic Wall"	p. 345
From Guns to the Missile Age	p. 369
Spreading the Net	p. 370
Antiaircraft Artillery	p. 377
The Soviet Threat and Missile Defense from 1950s to 1960s	p. 379
Defenses for the Offensive Weapons: the ICBMs	p. 383
New Defense Against Missiles	p. 390
Command, Communication, and Security	p. 391
Appendix	p. 393
Important Forts of the French and Indian War	p. 393
Battles of War of 1812 Involving Fortifications	p. 393
1st and 2nd System Forts 1790-1812	p. 394
Forts of the Bernard/Totten 3rd System	p. 396
Weapons of the Endicott Era for Coast Defense	p. 397
Coastal and Harbor Defenses-1903-1944	p. 397
Harbor Entrance Command Posts 1941 to 1946	p. 401
Major Radars of the Cold War	p. 402
Glossary	p. 403
Bibliography	p. 406
Index	p. 411
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