A Company Of Forts
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A Company Of Forts
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Author : Paul R. Davis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
A Company Of Forts written by Paul R. Davis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Architecture, Medieval categories.
The Company Fortress
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Author : Erik Lars Leendert Odegard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
The Company Fortress written by Erik Lars Leendert Odegard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with categories.
"The remains of Dutch East India Company forts are scattered throughout littoral Asia and Africa. But how important were the specific characteristics of European bastion-trace fortifications to early modern European expansion? Was European fortification design as important for early modern expansion as has been argued? This book takes on these questions by studying the system of fortifications built and maintained by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in present-day India and Sri Lanka. It uncovers the stories of the forts and their designers, arguing that many of these engineers were in fact amateurs and their creations contained serious flaws. Subsequent engineers were hampered by their disagreement over fortification design: there proved not to be a single 'European school' of fortification design. The study questions the importance of fortification design for European expansion, shows the relationship between siege and naval warfare, and highlights changing perceptions by the VOC of the capabilities of new polities in India in the late eighteenth century."--uitgever.
Encyclopedia Of Historic Forts
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Author : Robert B. Roberts
language : en
Publisher: New York : Macmillan ; London : Collier Macmillan
Release Date : 1988
Encyclopedia Of Historic Forts written by Robert B. Roberts and has been published by New York : Macmillan ; London : Collier Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Architecture categories.
The Company Fortress
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Author : Erik Odegard
language : en
Publisher: Leiden University Press
Release Date : 2020
The Company Fortress written by Erik Odegard and has been published by Leiden University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with China categories.
The remains of Dutch East India Company forts are scattered throughout littoral Asia and Africa. But how important were the specific characteristics of European bastion-trace fortifications to Early Modern European expansion? The Company Fortress takes on this question by studying the system of fortifications built and maintained by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in present-day India and Sri Lanka. It uncovers the stories of the forts and their designers, arguing that many of these engineers were in fact amateurs and their creations contained serious flaws. Subsequent engineers were hampered by their disagreement over fortification design: there proved not to be a single 'European school' of fortification design. The study questions the importance of fortification design for European expansion, shows the relationship between siege and naval warfare, and highlights changing perceptions by the VOC of the capabilities of new polities in India in the late eighteenth century.
The Archaeology Of French And Indian War Frontier Forts
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Author : Lawrence E. Babits
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Release Date : 2013-11-19
The Archaeology Of French And Indian War Frontier Forts written by Lawrence E. Babits and has been published by University Press of Florida this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-19 with Social Science categories.
Fort Ticonderoga, the allegedly impenetrable star fort at the southern end of Lake Champlain, is famous for its role in the French and Indian War. But many other one-of-a-kind forts were instrumental in staking out the early American colonial frontier. On the 250th anniversary of this often-overlooked conflict, this volume musters an impressive range of scholars who tackle the lesser-known but nonetheless historically significant sites from barracks to bastions. Civilian, provincial, or imperial, the fortifications covered in this book range from South Carolina's Fort Prince George to Fort Frontenac in Ontario and to Fort de Chartres in Illinois. These forts were built during the first serious arms race on the continent, as Europeans and colonists struggled to control the lucrative fur trade routes of the northern boundary. The contributors to this volume reveal how the French and British adapted their fortification techniques to the special needs of the North American frontier. By exploring the unique structures that guarded the borderlands, this book reveals much about the underlying economies and dynamics of the broader conflict that defined a critical period of the American experience.
Exhibit Of The Pittsburgh Fort Wayne Chicago Rail Road Company With Relation To Their General Mortgage Of 10 000 000 Dollars
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Author : Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Rail Road Company
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1857
Exhibit Of The Pittsburgh Fort Wayne Chicago Rail Road Company With Relation To Their General Mortgage Of 10 000 000 Dollars written by Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Rail Road Company and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1857 with categories.
Great Plains Forts
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Author : Jay H Buckley
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date :
Great Plains Forts written by Jay H Buckley and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
British Forts And Their Communities
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Author : Christopher R. DeCorse
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Release Date : 2018-03-14
British Forts And Their Communities written by Christopher R. DeCorse and has been published by University Press of Florida this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-14 with Social Science categories.
While the military features of historic forts usually receive the most attention from researchers, this volume focuses instead on the people who met and interacted in these sites. Contributors to British Forts and Their Communities look beyond the defensive architecture, physical landscapes, and armed conflicts to explore the complex social diversity that arose in the outposts of the British Empire. The forts investigated here operated at the empire's peak in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, protecting British colonial settlements and trading enclaves scattered across the globe. Locations in this volume include New York State, Michigan, the St. Lawrence River, and Vancouver, as well as sites in the Caribbean and in Africa. Using archaeological and archival evidence, these case studies show how forts brought together people of many different origins, ethnicities, identities, and social roles, from European soldiers to indigenous traders to African slaves. Characterized by shifting networks of people, commodities, and ideas, these fort populations were microcosms of the emerging modern world. This volume reveals how important it is to move past the conventional emphasis on the armed might of the colonizer in order to better understand the messy, entangled nature of British colonialism and the new era it helped usher in. Contributors: Zachary J.M. Beier | Flordeliz T. Bugarin | Robert Cromwell | Christopher R. DeCorse | Liza Gijanto | Guido Pezzarossi | Douglas Pippin | Amy Roache-Fedchenko | Gerald F. Schroedl | David R. Starbuck | Douglas C. Wilson
Fort Douglas
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Author : Louwane Vansoolen
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2009
Fort Douglas written by Louwane Vansoolen and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
On October 26, 1862, Col. Edward P. Connor and the 3rd California Volunteers set up Camp Douglas for the purpose of protecting the overland mail and telegraph routes between Nevada and Wyoming. This began a long history of a U.S. military presence in the Salt Lake Valley Mormon community. Although the camp closed on October 26, 1991, the U.S. military still has a presence today on the east bench of Salt Lake City known as Fort Douglas. The base as it was during its heyday of the 38th Infantry is gone, but the parade ground and Gothic sandstone homes of Officers Circle, shaded by trees planted long ago, still remain at Fort Douglas. The horses have disappeared and the "old soldiers have faded away," but the stable and red-brick barracks also remain. A few old-timers still enjoy a stroll around the parade ground, listening for the canyon breeze ruffling through the trees that echo faintly the calls of yesteryear.
Fort Cochin In Kerala 1750 1830
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Author : Anjana Singh
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2010
Fort Cochin In Kerala 1750 1830 written by Anjana Singh and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Social Science categories.
This study of the early modern fortress town of Cochin in India, based on the rarely used VOC archival deposits in the Tamilnadu State Archives in Chennai (Madras), provides an intimate portrait of a Dutch urban community of East India Company servants and their dependents living within the larger social environment of the Malabar coast. It shows how between 1750 and 1830 the population of this Dutch settlement had adapted itself to the fundamental political and economic changes that occurred as a result of local state formation processes, the demise of the Dutch East India Company, and the change of regime that occurred when English administration was imposed on Fort Cochin in 1795.