While the military features of historic forts usually receive the most attention from researchers, this volume focuses instead on the people who met and interac

This book is about the diverse communities associated with English and British forts of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It casts new light

British forts in the colonial American backcountry have long been subjects of American heroic myth. Forts were romanticized as harbingers of European civilizati

This study of the cultural and military importance of British forts in the colonial era explains how these forts served as communities in Indian country more th

This dissertation examines interactions between civilians and the military during the Seven Years' War in the British North American colonies. The settings of t