Bøger af Michael Garlock

Fully illustrated compendium of the 18 New York forts that played significant and strategic roles during the Revolutionary War.

Cathedrals of War tells the story of FloridaΓÇÖs coastal fortifications from Amelia Island on the Florida/Georgia border, to Key West, the Dry Tortugas, an atoll midway between Key West and Havana, Cuba and Pensacola on FloridaΓÇÖs west coast. Covering the colonial era to the Civil War to the late 1880s, the book will explain the specific locations, designs of the forts, the strategy behind their construction, military necessity and purpose that led to their construction, their armament and the battles they participated in. All in all, twenty-two forts erected by Britain, Spain, and America will be discussed and explored.