Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 54746-h.htm or 54746-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/54746/54746-h/54746-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/54746/54746-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/quainthistofforts00hammrich Transcriber’s note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). A detailed transcriber's note is at the end of the book. QUAINT AND HISTORIC FORTS OF NORTH AMERICA * * * * * * COLONIAL MANSIONS OF MARYLAND AND DELAWARE BY JOHN MARTIN HAMMOND With sixty-five illustrations from original photographs. Large octavo. Handsomely bound in cloth. Gilt top. In a box. A LIMITED EDITION, printed from type which has been distributed. $5.00 net. _The Outlook, N. Y. C._ “A book of elegance in form, illustration, and subject.” J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY PUBLISHERS PHILADELPHIA * * * * * * [Illustration: By courtesy of the St. Augustine Historical Society THE ANCIENT WATCH-TOWER OF FORT MARION, ST. AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA] QUAINT AND HISTORIC FORTS OF NORTH AMERICA by JOHN MARTIN HAMMOND Author of “Colonial Mansions of Maryland and Delaware” With Seventy-One Illustrations [Illustration: OLD GATEWAY FORT MARION ST AUGUSTINE FLORIDA U.S.A.] J. B Lippincott Company Philadelphia & London 1915 Copyright, 1915, by J. B. Lippincott Company Published November, 1915 Printed by J. B. Lippincott Company at the Washington Square Press Philadelphia, U. S. A. PREFACE An account of the most famous fortifications of North America is, in reality, a cross section of the military history of the continent; and whatever ingenuity there may be in this method of presenting the conspicuous deeds of valor of the American people will, it may be hoped, add interest to the following pages. So many races of men have wrestled for the North American continent in, historically speaking, so brief a space of time! We behold the Indian in possession though we do not know who was his predecessor in holding the land, though the mounds of the Middle West, notably Illinois and Arkansas, point to a race of a higher culture and more developed knowledge of building than the red men had. There come the Spanish with their relentless persecutions of the natives. There come the English, French, Dutch, Swedish. And the claims of each clash, to at length give way--despite the military acumen of the French--to the steady, home-building genius of the English.