Quaint and Historic Forts of North AmericaHammond, John Martin
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Quaint and Historic Forts of North America
Hammond, John Martin
Fortification -- North America; Fortification -- United States; Historic buildings -- United States
Belle Rive, Louis St. Ange de, Commanding Chartres, 12;
stationed at Vincennes, 14;
surrenders Chartres to English, 14
Boston, Fort at, 25-35
Boston Tea Party, 31
Bourbon, Fort, on the Mississippi, 263
Bowie, James, inventor of Bowie knife, 281
Braddock, 18;
his march and death, 19, 53, 127
Bradford, Wm., 106
Brownsville, Pa., 21
Burgoyne, General, 64
Burnet, Governor of New York, 122, 123, 124
Cadillac, La Motte, 132
Caen, Emery de, 75
Canseau, Nova Scotia, expedition against, 2;
fleet arrives at, 7
Castine, Baron Vincent de, 103, 104
Castle Garden, New York City, 46
Castle St. Louis, Quebec, 72, 77, 82
Castle William, Boston, 25, 35
Castle Williams, New York Harbor, 46
Champlain, Memorial Light House, 67
Champlain, Samuel, 49, 50, 51, 52, 60, 72, 73;
dies at Quebec, 76
Charles, Fort, Me., 107
Charleston, South Carolina, Fort at, 241-250
Chartres, Fort, site selected, 11;
disastrous expedition leaves, 12;
second fort built, 12;
surrenders to English, 14
Chebucto Bay, 93, 94, 97
Chicago, Illinois, 21;
historical Society, 23
Cincinnati, Ohio, 24
Citadel of Halifax, 93-97
Citadel of Quebec, 72-83
Clark, Fort, Illinois, 24
Clark, George Rogers, 23, 24, 144, 145
Clinton, Fort, New York City, 46
Clinton, Fort, New York, 148, 149
Columbus, Fort, New York, 36-48
Constitution, Fort, New Hampshire, 161-166
Constitution, Fort, New York, 150
Cornbury, Governor of New Amsterdam, 41
Covington, Fort, 187
“Crater,” The, near Petersburg, Virginia, 303
Crevecœur, Fort, 15
Crockett, Davy, falls at Alamo, 283
Crown Point, 53, 66-71
Damariscotta, 3
Davenport, Captain Richard, 28
Davis, Jeff, cell at Fort Monroe, 235
Dearborn, Fort, 21, 22, 23
Dearborn, General, Secretary of War, 35
Defiance, Mount, 64
De Soto, 142, 201
Diamond, Fort, 45
Dieskau, 54, 55, 56, 69
Donop, Count, 177
Dorchester, Mass., 32
Douglas, Fort, Utah, 289 et seq.
Drake, Sir Francis, menaces Havana, 203
Duchambon, successor to Duquesnel, 8
Dufferin Terrace, Quebec, 72, 83
Dummer, William, Governor of Mass., 29
Dumplings, Fort, near Newport, R. I., 231
Duquesne, Fort, erected, 18;
falls to England, 19
Duquesne, Governor-General of Canada, 18
Duquesnel, Commandant of Louisburg, 2
Edward, Fort, New York, 57
Erie, Pa., 20
Falls of Minnehaha, 268
Federal Hill Fort, Baltimore, 188, 189
Fetterman, Wyoming, 288 et seq.
Franklin, Pa., 21
Frederick, Fort, Maine, 105-112
Frenchman’s Bay, Me., 88
Frontenac, in command at Quebec, 77, 78, 79, 110
Frontenac, Fort (Kingston, Canada), 114, 127
Gage, Fort, 23, 24
George, Fort, at mouth of Columbia River, Ore., 292
George, Fort, Me., 98-104
George, Fort, New York City, 37
Gettysburg, 302
Governor’s Island, New York Harbor, 36, 37, 41, 42, 43, 44-48
Griswold, Fort, Conn., 167-172
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