The Forts of Colonial North America
British, Dutch and Swedish colonies
René Chartrand author Donato Spedaliere illustrator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:20th Jan '11
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
The final volume in a two-part study of some of the earliest fortifications built in North America, covering a vital period in America's colonial past.
This book provides an in-depth study of the construction and location of these fortifications, and examines what it was like to live and fight inside them, with the forts themselves illustrated by beautifully detailed artwork.This book takes a detailed look at the fortifications of various types that were built from the times of the earliest British settlements in North America in the late 16th century until the end of the Seven Years' War, when France ceded New France to Britain. It begins with a study of the forts built by colonists on Roanoke Island between 1585 and 1590, and the famous settlements in Jamestown (Virginia) from 1607. It moves on to cover the British settlements that followed in New England, Nova Scotia and other points on the North American coast, as well as the Dutch fortified settlements in what are now the states of New York, Connecticut and New Jersey, and the Swedish forts in Delaware between 1638 and 1655.
This fascinating volume traces the development of fortifications in North America from the 1520s to the 1760s, region by region. It is crammed with illustrations of everything from 'strong houses' and stockades to the later Vauban-like fortifications -- Miniature Wargames This volume offers a valuable guide to much of the colonial forts of North America, and is highly recommended -- Casemate: The Journal of the Fortress Study Group
ISBN: 9781849081979
Dimensions: 248mm x 184mm x 7mm
Weight: 136g
64 pages