"A comprehensive account of North American fortifications and defense structures from colonial times to the twentieth century, supplemented by scores of remarka

The only work available on the history of U.S. coastal defenses, including their armament and architecture. It will appeal to fort visitors and naval history bu

From forts to blockhouses, garrison houses to trading posts, stations to presidios, missions to ranches and towns, this work provides a history of the primary f

The 50 years before the American Civil War saw a boom in the construction of coastal forts in the United States of America. These stone and brick forts stretche