Quaint and Historic Forts of North America (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Hammond, John Martin) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Quaint and Historic Forts of North America An account of the most famous fortification 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 Tor 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 I 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. Of the strongholds which the Spanish built to maintain their title to this part of the world there remain such substantial relics as the old fort at St Augustine, annually visited by thousands of people, and that at Pensacola, Florida. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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