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Forts of the American Frontier 1776–1891: California, Oregon, Washington, and Alaska
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With the violent separation between the United States and Britain which began in 1776, the new 'Americans' set off to fulfill their manifest destiny and rule their new land from coast to coast. As they pushed westward, they came into conflict with both natives and other European settlers, and began to build fortresses to defend their newly claimed land. This book charts the development and variation of the fortresses of the American Frontier, covering both American defenses and those of the Spanish in the west. It also examines the little-known forts of early Russian settlers on the Pacific coast.
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Ron Field is an internationally acknowledged expert on US military history. Awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in 1982, he taught History at Piedmont High School in California from 1982 to 1983, and was then Head of History at the Cotswold School in Bourton-on-the-Water, UK, until his retirement in 2007. In 2005 he was elected a Fellow of the Company of Military Historians, based in Washington, DC, and was awarded its Emerson Writing Award in 2013.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5How this subject could possibly rate a book on its own is a mystery. These minor forts, where not even a viable threat of military action ever arose, should have been included in another book. An utter waste of shelf space.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5
to much text. to little fotos, drawings etc etc i say