Main entry:

Kaufmann, J. E.

Title & Author:

Fortress America : the forts that defended America, 1600 to the present / J.E. Kaufmann and H.W. Kaufmann ; illustrated by Tomasz Idzikowski.

Edition:

1st Da Capo Press pbk. ed.

Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, ©2007.

Description:

416 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

Notes:
"Glossary": p. 403-405.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 406-410) and index.
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.

Summary:

From the earliest colonial settlements to Cold War bunkers, North America has been home to thousands of forts and fortress structures. Fortress America surveys the broad sweep of these fornications across the continent and throughout American history.

ISBN:

0306815508 (pbk.)
9780306815508 (pbk.)

Subject:

Fortification United States History.
Coast defenses United States History.
Ballistic missile defenses United States History.
Radar defense networks Canada History.
Military readiness.
Défense antimissile États-Unis Histoire.
Armements.
Ballistic missile defenses.
Coast defenses.
Fortification.
Radar defense networks.
United States History, Military.
États-Unis Histoire militaire.
Canada.
United States.

Form/genre:

History.
Military history.

Added entries:

Kaufmann, H. W.
Idzikowski, Tomasz.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 277069
Call No.: BIB 211721
Status: Available